DISEASE could be as deadly as bullets and bombs for soldiers enduring the hell of life in the First World War trenches.

And for men like Herbert Moore the fatal consequences could strike when they were hundreds of miles away from the front line.

The Keighley-born private contracted kidney disease almost a year after being sent to France in spring 1917 with the Machine Gun Corps.

In March 1918 he was discharged from the Army as “permanently unfit”, the ailment directly attributed to exposure suffered in the trenches, and he died of kidney disease in December the following year.

Because his death was not directly caused by enemy action, the Oakworth painter and decorator was not recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on its roll of honour.

The Men of Worth Project believed Herbert did deserve recognition, so in 2011 it provided evidence that the wartime Army Medical Board had certified his death was due to his war service.

As a result, in July 2015, the Commission provided a new headstone to be installed on his grave at Oakworth Cemetery.

And in November that year the Men of Worth Project hosted a dedication ceremony attended by a host of civic representatives, veterans, local organisations, residents and habits descendants.