AN EXHIBITION will mark the culmination of a two-year First World War research project.

The Farnhill World War One Volunteers initiative looked into the lives of 68 men from the community who served in the conflict.

They were named on a list of volunteer servicemen drawn-up by Farnhill Parish Council during the Great War.

Now the findings are to be displayed in an exhibition, From Farnhill to the Front, at the village institute on Saturday, November 10, from 10am to 4pm.

It will include details of the volunteers’ lives before, during and after the war, together with a timeline of what was happening in the village.

Also on show will be a selection of personal effects which belonged to some of the volunteers – including Private John Spencer Whitham, a stretcher-bearer with the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding regiment who won the Military Medal for his bravery.

The research project, which received an £8,400 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, was launched early last year with a magic lantern show recreating the type of entertainment popular a century ago.

Since then a team of volunteers has spent many hours searching for information online and in libraries and archive offices.

Project co-ordinator Graham Taylor said the amount of material gathered was “astounding”.

“It was far greater than we ever imagined when starting out,” he added.

“We are grateful to everyone who has come forward with offers of help and information including relatives of the men, from as far afield as Lockerbie and Leicester.”

Admission to the exhibition is free, and refreshments will be available.

Information unearthed during the project is also being made publicly accessible through its website and a digital archive that will be shared with libraries.

For more details, visit farnhill.co.uk.