She has spent the last four years honouring the Helston men who lost their lives in the First World War, but now Martine Knight is preparing to pay the ultimate tribute in front of the Queen in London following three prestigious invitations.

Martine is the secretary and founder member of Helston World War One Heritage Project, which has remembered every soldier on the town's war memorial, on the 100th anniversary of his death, through displays of information and the tolling of St Michael's Parish Church tenor bell, plus a series of annual exhibitions.

Now she will have to chance to do this on a larger scale, after being invited to take part in the National Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey, on Remembrance Sunday, in the presence of the Queen.

This year Remembrance Sunday coincides with the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, when the fighting ceased whilst peace negotiations took place prior to the official end of the First World War, in June 1919.

Martin said it was "a great honour" to be asked and was recognition for the work that the project has been doing since it began in 2014, and which will continue until 2020, when the centenary of the last of Helston’s World War One fallen will take place.

Not only this, she was also selected in a national ballot to take part in a one-off People's March of Thanks, which will see 10,000 people follow the veterans parade past The Cenotaph.

She said, “I just couldn’t believe that I’d been selected for two such high profile events of remembrance and I am deeply touched to have been.”

And to top it all off, last week she received an email from the BBC asking her to take part in the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, as part of a segment where around 70 descendants of World War One participants walk through the hall, bearing a photo of their ancestor.

"I thought I'd been lucky to get a ticket to go and see it, but to be part of it blew my mind," said Martine.

"It will be an immense honour and very personal to me and my family."

Martine plans to symbolically take all of the town's Great War soldiers with her by means of a set of cards, used by the heritage project group in its annual exhibitions, each inscribed with the name of one of Helston’s 62 fallen.

“They will be with me throughout the weekend and I hope that their families will feel proud that they are going on one last parade," she said.

Before heading off to London, however, Martine will oversee the mounting of this year’s exhibition, "Served, Survived and the Sowing of Seeds", which will open the Museum of Cornish Life - formerly Helston Museum - next Thursday, November 1 and will run for the whole of the month.