AN EXHIBITION exploring Swanmore’s role in the First World War will be displayed on Remembrance weekend.
A new film showing the daily lives of village soldiers will be screened in the Paterson Centre, Church Road on November 8 and 9.
There will also be photographic displays of the war at sea and in the air, a selection of artefacts and a feature on local railways which carried troops to Southampton their way to battles in France.
Village archivist Crawford Wright, who arranged the exhibition, said the village was “never the same again” after the Great War.
“Thirty-five people got killed and never came back,” he said. “We’ve also got a list of the 100 that did come back. We’re conveying the whole thing.”
The free exhibition, which returns after a successful showing in August, opens from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, November 8 and 11am to 5pm on November 9. For more details call Crawford Wright on 01489 893378.
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