THE search is on for two lost war memorials, so they can be put on public display.

The memorials are believed to have been kept at the the Ex-Servicemen’s Club opposite Trafford Bar Station, Old Trafford, until the club folded last year.

Local historian George Cogswell, who is trying to track them down, said: "It is believed that when the Ex-Servicemen's Club closed, the elders of the club took two war memorials with them for safe-keeping."

George has already succeeded in retrieving two other war memorials and they are o now on display at Stretford Public Hall.

He added: " I am now trying to track these two smaller memorials down and with the goodwill of the Friends of Stretford Public Hall get them mounted alongside the two large memorials already displayed there."

When the Ex-Servicemen's Club closed at the end of 2014, they abandoned a large huge war memorial originally from St. Peter's Church in Gorse Hill. This was retrieved and is one of those displayed at the public hall.

Also now kept at the hall is a war memorial from the Stretford Trades and Labour Club.

One of the memorials George is now trying to locate used to be sited at the Independent Methodist Chapel, Barton Road, Stretford, until it was closed some years ago.

It contains the names of 12 of their parishioners who died with a roll of honour of the names of parishioners who served and returned.

The second missing memorial is a white marble plaque that commemorates Private Jack Dawson, who died at Gallipoli in 1915.

Anyone who can help can contact George Cogswell at george.cogswell@virginmedia.com.