TWO names have been added to the Gostrey Meadow war memorial in time for this weekend’s Remembrance services - including a son of the then-Bishop of Winchester and close friend of Harold Macmillan.

Ahead of the now-traditional children’s Armistice Day service on Friday and Remembrance Sunday parade and service, Farnham Town Council has replaced a faded and undistinguishable plaque honouring the town’s war dead.

Using research by author Thomas Ellwood, two forgotten casualties of the First World War not previously listed have been found and added to the memorial - Gilbert Walter Lyttleton Talbot and Leslie Young, coincidentally both former pupils of Winchester College.

GWL Talbot was the son of the Right Reverend Edward Stuart Talbot, the then-Bishop of Winchester residing at Farnham Castle.

After graduating from Winchester College he later studied at Oxford University, where he became a close friend of Harold Macmillan, who would go on to serve as British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963.

He was killed aged 23 on July 30, 1915, while serving in the 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade at Hooge, during a British counter-attack following the German Army’s first use of flame throwers on the Western Front.

Mourned by the loss of his friend, Macmillan wrote in his autobiography: “Already the shadow of death had begun to darken all our young lives. Among the most grievous to me of the losses in 1915 was that of Gilbert Talbot.

“I had known him well at Oxford. I had stayed with him at Farnham, where his father – the Bishop of Winchester – and Mrs Talbot lived, and savoured the rare quality of that atmosphere. I feel certain that if he had been spared he would have made a great mark in our politics. Politics were his dream and delight.”

Leslie Young joined the Royal Flying Corps directly as an officer cadet on June 11, 1917, and following training was made a Flying Officer on March 10, 1918, and on April 1 became a member of the newly formed Royal Air Force.

He finally went overseas on June 19, 1918, being posted to 25th Squadron, a DH4 Squadron serving on the Western Front and based at Ruisseauville.

On October 4, 1918, while out on his own in a DH4 east of Cambrai, he was attacked by a large force of enemy planes, of which he is alleged to have brought down four before being brought down himself and killed. He was 19 years old.

Leslie Young was posted as missing with his death finally being confirmed in May 1919.

His older brother, Lieutenant Christopher Young, is also commemorated on the Farnham war memorial having lost his life aged 27 on July 20, 1918, serving with 55th Squadron RAF performing daylight bombing raids over Germany.

Photos: Winchester College