A PLEA has been made for a World War One commemorative plaque to be moved to Bangor’s War Memorial.

Currently the plaque, which records the names of members of Bangor Sailors’ Institute who lost their lives during the conflict, most of them at sea, is mounted on an office wall in Porth Penrhyn and needs refurbishing.

Resident Alun Davies, who has made the appeal said: “This plaque shows members of what was the Bangor Sailors’ Institute who sadly lost their lives during the Great War, some of them at sea, and the state of the plaque is in somewhat poor condition. I think it should be renovated and placed in a more prominent position in Bangor, somewhere near the Cenotaph.”

Mr Davies added he has a personal connection with the plaque, he said: “My wife, Gwyneth’s grandfather, Richard Jones, is named on the plaque and sadly lost his life at a fairly young age being blown up by a German submarine while serving on a drifter in the Bay of Dublin.”