The medals and bronze memorial plaque — or "death penny" — to Millom-born soldier John Elliott returned home from the stock of a dealer in Leeds to go on show at a First World War talk, militaria display and afternoon tea.

The event was held in the Tin Chapel by Millom Pensioners and featured a talk on the town during the war years by The Mail's nostalgia writer Bill Myers.

Private Elliott was born in Millom and his parents lived at Hope Street.

He served with the King's Own and died of wounds on February 13 in 1917, aged 20. He is buried at the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq.

He joined the Army a few days after the start of the war in August, 1914.

He had been away from home for 20 months.

Before the war he had been a shipyard apprentice at Barrow.