A Brighton boy killed during the Blitz will finally have a gravestone thanks to investigations by a fellow evacuee.

Kenneth Carter was just 11 when a bomb fell on a draper's shop in Surrey. He and two other children died in the blast.

Since then he has laid forgotten in an unmarked grave near Egham.

More than 60 years later, Jean Slattery, who was also evacuated to the town, has won a campaign for a headstone for the boy.

She is now trying to trace friends or relatives of Kenneth to attend when the grave is consecrated next year.

Mrs Slattery, 70, can clearly recall the bomb which destroyed Arkell's draper's on Egham High Street on November 15, 1940.

It killed Kenneth, George Button, 12, and 15-year-old Sheila Arkell. She said: "I remember the bomb coming down in Egham and heard two evacuee children were killed. I've never forgotten it.

"Since I retired, I have had more time to think back and decided to go back to Egham.

"I went back to the house I was billeted to and the lady I was billeted with was still alive and in her 90s.

"I did some more research and learned the names of the boys and where they came from. I then discovered one was still in the cemetery in Egham."

Through her research, Mrs Slattery found out Kenneth was brought up by his mother, Edith Laura Carter nee Marjoram and lived at Woodland Way, Brighton.

He attended Withdean Prep School but then joined a Bethnal Green School called Raine's Foundation, which had been evacuated to Brighton.

Soon after Dunkirk, Raine's Foundation was re-evacuated to Egham and Mrs Slattery said she suspected Kenneth's mother assigned him to this school to get him away from Brighton, which was considered unsafe. But within a few months he was dead.

Mrs Slattery, who lives in Sidcup, Kent, said she thought he was left in Surrey because of the cost of bringing the body home to Brighton.

She said: "It upset me that this boy has been forgotten by the world. Luckily, other people felt the same as I did."

Mrs Slattery gained support for the headstone and for the commemoration next May from both Raine's Foundation and Strode's College in Egham, where Raine's Foundation shared facilities, as well as the Evacuees' Reunion Association.

She has also traced Tony Arkell, the brother of Sheila, who survived the blast.

But she said: "I have not been able to contact any of Kenneth's relatives at all.

"It seems such a shame we are going to put a headstone on his grave but don't have anyone from his family."