REMEMBRANCE Day 2020 will be looking rather different in Warrington this year.

So while public services are off, the Warrington Guardian will be telling the story of one Warrington war hero every day this month until November 11.

Today, meet Albert Howard, who was just 17 when he served his country during the First World War.

At the time you had to be at least 18 to serve as a soldier but the British Army recruited around 250,000 boys who lied about their age.

Albert, of Nicholson Street, was among those who felt compelled to serve. He joined the 10th Battalion – Cheshire Regiment and was sent to France in 1914.

There he served for three and a half years in Flanders and fought in the battles of the Aisne and Marne before he was killed on May 30, 1918.

Albert's service is recognised and honoured at the Soissons Memorial, to the east of Paris.