The solider was first erected in 2014 to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1.

Woollen medals knitted by the Great Ayton Knit and Knatter group are put on the soldier on the day each one was killed, also a minutes silence is held at the village war memorial on the exact centenary of their death.

The project will continue into 2018 by which time all 50 who were killed will have been remembered.