A MEMORIAL service for a Kidderminster soldier killed in Afghanistan will take place this weekend.

People will gather at St Mary’s Church to remember Lance Corporal Richard Brandon at the poignant service, on Saturday.

The 24-year-old was killed in September last year, when his vehicle hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), in Helmand Province.

Standards will form a guard of honour outside the church before the memorial starts, at 3pm.

People will enter the church to Angels by Robbie Williams and the first hymn will be All Things Bright and Beautiful. Tributes will also be paid to L/Cpl Brandon.

Canon Owain Bell, who will conduct the service, will light the candle of piece.

People will leave the church to Jon Bon Jovi’s, A Blaze of Glory and the standards will, again, form a guard of honour as everyone exits.

The songs, chosen by L/Cpl Brandon’s Fiancee Emma-Jayne Webster, were ones the soldier had picked for his crematorium.

His family, including his parents, Anne and Geoff, Ms Webster, daughter, Kaitlin and stepsons, Martyn Raszke and Liam Raszke-Webster, are expected to attend the service.

The memorial has been organised by the recently-formed Ex-servicemen, Women and Veterans Trust, after the town’s Charter of Trustees decided to no longer hold military tribute services for individual soldiers.