A decades-old wrong could soon be put right if plans to install a new memorial plaque for members of the RAF and the Royal Flying Corps on Keighley War Memorial are approved.

The town’s war memorial pays tribute to the Army and the Royal Navy but doesn’t have any tribute to the Royal Air Force.

Ian Walkden, of the Keighley branch of the Royal British Legion, launched a campaign to have the plaque installed in March after receiving a request for help from his friend Martin Whitcombe.

He said: “A Second World War veteran of Bomber Command, who lives in Keighley, told Martin he would love to see a tribute to the RAF on the town’s war memorial before he died. Martin said he had been chasing it for ten years but was getting no where so in March I said let’s go for it.”

Mr Walkden and his partner Edith Thompson, who is also a British Legion member, spent six months arranging to have the plaque placed on Keighley’s memorial.

Mr Walkden said: “I am pleased that it is going ahead after everybody has worked so hard on it.”

The stone plaque has been designed by Keighley artist David Ingham and is being made by stonemasons M&G Stone Ltd in Keighley. It will be unveiled on Thursday, November 10, by a member of bomber command. The work, which is expected to cost up to £4,000, is being funded by Keighley Town Council.

Town mayor Councillor Michael Westerman said: “When it came before the council for funding there was no opposition to it. I think all the armed forces should be remembered in some way on the town’s memorial.”