Llywelyn Evans: His name has been added to Llandudno cenotaph

Lance Bombardier Llywelyn Evans - known to his friends as Welly - was the first soldier from Llandudno to be killed in action since the Second World War

Some 2,000 people gathered at the north Wales town's seafront cenotaph on Sunday to dedicate a plaque bearing his name, which has been added to the war memorial

There was applause as his parents and fianc�e, and brother Lee who had served in Iraq in the same Royal Artillery commando unit, laid a wreath.

Soldiers from his unit, specially invited to the Remembrance Sunday ceremony, also laid their own wreath to his memory.

The Royal British Legion and town council remembered the soldier

And a wreath in the shape of a rugby pitch and ball was laid on behalf of Llandudno rugby club, for which Lance Bombardier Evans was a popular and talented player.

The soldier was one of 12 servicemen who died when an American Sea Knight helicopter crashed in the desert.

The 24-year-old was a Royal Artilleryman attached to the Royal Marines, and he was one of six young men from the same street who went out to serve in the Gulf.

Billy Evans, President of the Llandudno branch of the Royal British Legion, had said: "What was so tragic about Llywelyn's death is that it was an accident.

"He must have been a tremendous soldier after hearing the tributes that were paid to him by people at his funeral, which included his commanding officer."

A portrait of the lance bombardier had been unveiled at the town's Royal British Legion.

The Remembrance Day service was held in Llandudno's Holy Trinity Church, followed by a two-minute silence, prayers and the wreath-laying.

The plaque was purchased by Llandudno's Town Council.

A Llandudno community centre has also been named after Llywelyn Evans.

His family had to endure two funerals after more of the soldier's remains were found in the wreckage of the US helicopter in which he died.