THE memory of three servicemen will live on forever at The National Memorial Arboretum.

A memorial wall, originally built in Basra, in Iraq, but now rebuilt at the National Arboretum is inscribed with the names of Capt Dai Jones, of Louth, Flt Lt Andrew Smith, of Cleethorpes, and Cpl Kristen Turton, of Holton-le-Clay.

The wall, in Lichfield, Staffordshire, was rededicated this week to the 178 UK service personnel and one Ministry of Defence civilian who lost their lives serving in Operation Telic – Britain's six-year operation in Iraq following the 2003 invasion. Prime Minister Gordon Brown laid a wreath there during the rededication.

Flt Lt Smith, 25, of Cleethorpes, was killed when the Hercules plane he was co-piloting was shot down on a flight from Baghdad to Balad, in Iraq, on January 30, 2005.

Trooper Turton, 27, of The Queen's Royal Lancers Battle Group, was one of two British soldiers killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by a bomb blast in Iraq.

Louth soldier Capt David "Dai" Jones, 29, died following a bomb attack on an ambulance near the southern Iraq town of Basra on Saturday, August 14, 2003. Capt Jones was travelling in the vehicle when it was carrying out a mercy mission taking injured people to hospital.

Canon Stephen Holdaway, Rector of Louth, said: "Capt Jones was on a mercy mission taking people to hospital. It is a very good idea to remember all those who gave their lives in Iraq.

"It is important there is a national remembrance of the fact they gave their lives. It will be particularly helpful for the bereaved so they can have somewhere in this country they can go."