David Bradshaw, 69, of Old Milverton discovered the unremembered soldiers following an appeal in the Courier.

He asked readers to get in touch with information about his old school friend Graham Gillingham, who he believed had been killed in action in Borneo.

As a result, he was contacted by Warwick resident Fred Stopps who joined the Royal Marines with Gillingham, and by his old friend's cousin Allan Fulford.

Mr Bradshaw said: "I'm over the moon about it. It's been nice to talk to people related to Graham and to find out what happened."

He discovered that Marine Gillingham, of Radford Semele, died on Christmas Eve, 1962, aged 20, and his body was flown to Singapore where he was buried on Boxing Day.

Mr Fulford, 64, of Weymouth, was sent the story by his mother Brenda Fulford who still lives in Warwick.

He said: "The family thinks it would be great to have his name on the memorial. It would mean a lot to us.

"Graham was two years older than me and we spent a lot of time together. It was a sad time when he died and something we didn't expect."

Using a book called the Roll of Honour 1914 to 2005 by historian Ken Fowler, Mr Bradford has compared the names of everyone killed on active service from mid and south Warwickshire against those on the Euston Place memorial.

Some 555 were missing, but 490 of those are already on other memorials around the town, which leaves 63 uncommemorated.

Mr Bradshaw said: "To give your life is the ultimate sacrifice and I believe these names need to go on the memorial.

"There isn't space on there at the moment so I will be speaking to Leamington town council about what they can do.

"I would like to thank my neighbour Diane Kincaid and her son Declan for helping to check the names."

Leamington town clerk Robert Nash has said "the council wants to honour all war heroes", but was unavailable to comment on Mr Bradshaw's latest discovery.