A group of Year 9 Sherborne pupils, working in collaboration with Sherborne Museum and the Dorset and Somerset History Society recently researched the lives of 174 soldiers whose names are inscribed on the Sherborne Town War memorial.

Around 20 pupils spent 2 weeks studying the history and collecting information on family backgrounds behind each of the names.  They used resources available at the Commonwealth War Grave Commission and old copies of local paper, the Western Gazette, to piece together the lives of lost, local servicemen.

Their findings are now on display at the town Museum and there are plans to create a permanent database for public use in the museum.