VOLUNTEERS from the Holsworthy Museum and pupils and teachers from Holsworthy Community College worked together to create a WW1 and the Somme Exhibition.

Holsworthy Community College lent some of the students’ work to the museum for their exhibition. The work they gave came from the college’s display to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

Held on November 26 in the Memorial Hall, the exhibition saw tables set up with various displays with information about the First World War and the Battle of the Somme, which were both commemorated recently.

The exhibition was held as a culmination of the ‘In Remembrance’ project, which has been headed up by local historian and Holsworthy Museum volunteer, Shawn Dymond.

The project is run on behalf of the Holsworthy Museum to research and record the lives and experiences of those men and women from within the 22 parishes that make up the old ‘Holsworthy Union’ who went to war between 1914 and 1918.

The project seeks to find out not just about those who died in the war but also about those who came back.

The biggest focus of the project so far has been to create a new ‘Roll of Honour’. The volunteers involved have added the names of those who had previously been forgotten from the original roll.

As the Post went to press, the current Roll, written up by the volunteers of names from the 22 parishes included in the project, stands at 188.

Speaking about the exhibition in Holsworthy Memorial Hall, Shawn said: “The exhibition on Saturday was staged by the project and we were extremely grateful to Holsworthy Community College who brought along much of the work completed by the school over the past months to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.”