But that's exactly what Bill Crump found as he walked down Bersham Road.

The scroll apparently commemorates the life of Private Enoch Thomas, and what makes the discovery even more puzzling is that Pte. Thomas seems to have been in the Canadian infantry.

Bill said: "It's very strange indeed, I found it near the cemetery gates on Bersham Road. It's a rather odd thing to find on the street and I'd like to find out who it belongs to.

"I think it was probably dropped by someone going in or out of the cemetery. There is a high wall there so I don't think it could have blown from a grave.

"I've asked people in the area but nobody seems to know anything about it so I'm hoping this will help find the owner."

The fragile scroll has been identified, by an expert in Militaria, as a "Great War Parchment Memorial Scroll".

It bears the Royal coat of arms and reads "He whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who, at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others may live in freedom.

"Let those who come after see to it that his name not be forgotten."

If anyone has any information on who Pte. Enoch Thomas was, or how the scroll came to be on Bersham Road, they should contact the Evening Leader office in Wrexham email digitalnews@nwn.co.uk or leave a comment below.