MEMORIAL stones honouring men conscripted into National Service are to be put up throughout the district.

Marlow, High Wycombe and Princes Risborough will get the commemorative stones after Wycombe District Council decided men conscripted between 1947 and 1963 should be honoured.

Wycombe district councillor Dennis Green, who first put the motion to council back in September 1999, said: "I really felt that these young men, who were conscripted from 1945 to 1963, deserve to be honoured for the time they sacrificed for their country."

High Wycombe will be the first of the principal towns to get their marble plaque on May 20, and a parade will be held before it goes up in the town.

National Servicemen and Royal British Legion members will begin marching in High Wycombe from the Swan Theatre's service road and parade along Queen Victoria Road to the Parish Church of All Saints where a church service will take place.

The parade will return through the High Street finishing at the Library Gardens, Queen Victoria Road, where the plaque will be put up.

Marlow's Causeway has been chosen as the site for the town's plaque, which will also go up on May 20, and a third plaque will be placed in Princes Risborough's library gardens on Bell Street on June 10. Royal British Legion members and National Servicemen are invited to march and members of the public can attend the church services and blessings.