The brother of a fallen Falklands soldier has thanked The Argus for helping to secure a memorial to the South Atlantic conflict.

Last night Brighton and Hove City Council moved a step closer to providing a memorial which would be used to honour Brighton paratrooper Corporal Steve Prior.

Officials are working to identify a site to build a monument to all servicemen killed since the Second World War.

The move comes after a campaign by the family of Corporal Prior, backed by The Argus, who died in the Falklands.

He and a fellow corporal, Dave Abols, put themselves in the line of fire to save a paratrooper who had been shot in the stomach.

Cpl Prior was hit in the shoulder by a sniper but still managed to drag the stricken man to relative safety. However, he was then felled by two shots.

A special book of remembrance will also be opened at Brighton, Hove and Portslade town halls where people can view details of those fallen soldiers, sailors or aircrew and leave written tributes to them.

A notice of motion backing the move was agreed by all councillors at the city council last night.

Funding will now be agreed at the next policy and resources committee held in November.

The main war memorials in most towns, cities and villages list the dead of the First World War, with many updated to include the fallen of Second World War.

It is not common practice to continually update these memorials but many places do have shrines to those killed in conflicts since 1945.

Cpl Prior's brother, Bob, 66, of The Avenue, Brighton, thanked The Argus and other backers for securing council support for the new monument.

He said: "Everybody should have somewhere to go and there should be somewhere locally.

"It is good news and good for any family who have lost servicemen."

An Argus online poll held earlier this year gave an overwhelming "yes" vote to adding Cpl Prior's name to the first world war memorial in the Old Steine, Brighton.

The council ruled out that idea but agreed to a new memorial.

In the poll, 447 people voted to support Cpl Prior's name being added to the First World War memorial while 135 said it should be left as it is.

Council leader Brian Oxley said: "This is an important matter. Something like 16,000 British armed services personnel have been killed while on duty for their country since the last world war. This city has sadly lost people in Iraq."

South Portslade councillor Steve Harmer-Strange who proposed the motion and who is also a Falklands veteran added: "Anybody who is prepared to lay down their life for others, irrespective of whether you agree or disagree with war, should be respected for the great sacrifice they have made.

"Their lives are every bit as important as those lost in the two great 20th Century wars.

"It's right and proper that we should have such a general memorial as there will be others in the future to whom this will also be a tribute."

Since the end of the Second World War UK armed forces have been deployed in places including Palestine, Korea, Egypt, Malaya, Borneo, Kenya the Falklands, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.

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