A DEPUTATION from Okehampton has returned from taking part in a successful Royal British Legion pilgrimage to Ypres in Belgium to remember the dead of the First World War.

Okehampton Poppy Appeal co-ordinator Wendy Oliver and her husband Squadron Leader Andy Oliver, leader of the town’s air cadets, joined RBL representatives from across Devon for the pilgrimage to the Menin Gate memorial.

They also visited cemeteries, including the one at Tyne Cot just outside Ypres, where more than 11,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers are buried.

Wendy is pictured by the wreaths laid at the Menin Gate during a ceremony on Wednesday last week, August 8 — including the wreath Wendy laid on behalf of Okehampton.

The pilgrimage was recreating one to the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres by First World War veterans and widows 90 years ago, in 1928.