A search to find the families of four north-east war veterans has been launched by their former school.
A memorial bearing the names of nine men who attended Lathallan School, Johnshaven, will be unveiled later this year as part of the annual Remembrance Day service.
Organisers have already found five of the mens’ families, and are keen to make contact with the others so they can invite them to the ceremony.
Lathallan was founded in 1930 so no-one from the school fought in World War I, but five died during WWII.
The memorial will also display the names of four other former pupils who died fighting for their country in Korea, Borneo and Cyprus.
Headmaster Richard Toley said: “It is very important in this centenary year of World War I to recognise the valour and bravery of the Lathallan pupils who served their country in all conflicts.
“We are keen to trace these families so we can welcome them to the school in November at the War Memorial unveiling and introduce them to a new generation of Lathallan pupils.”
Three of the men whose families have yet to be traced were killed during WWII and another, Surgeon Captain Gordon Charles Edwyn Underwood, was killed in action in Cyprus while serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in September 1956, when he was 29.
Trevor Charles Hendeboorck Thomson, originally from Cupar, served with the Scots Guards and was killed in Italy in October 1943.
Fellow pupil Thomas Michael Turner was from St Andrews and subsequently went to school at Sedbergh, Cumbria. He died in France in July 1944, aged 22.
George Chrystie Underwood was also from St Andrews and later went to school at Wellington College, Berkshire. He was killed in Italy in February 1944 when he was 21.
Alastair Shepherd, one of the school’s directors has been the driving force behind the war memorial project.
He said: “Perhaps living and working in an historic castle makes the pupils conscious that historical events are not as remote as we sometimes think.
“The pupils are very aware of the heritage of the school, and how the behaviour and sacrifice of Old Lathallians in the past reflects well on them in the modern era.”