On Saturday 10th November Exminster Victory Hall is holding an open day to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War.
A free cream tea is being offered and there'll be an exhibition commemorating the lives of 39 men - and now one woman - whose names are on the Roll of Honour.
Sally Parfitt writes:
Last year when I was researching the 39 men named on Exminster War Memorial I found that there was an individual missing. Violet Irene Nellie Crago.
Known as Irene, she was born in Fremington, North Devon, in 1902, the youngest of three children of...
Shrouds of the Somme returns to Exeter’s Northernhay Gardens on Saturday (30 June), two years after its original installation moved thousands of visitors.
The 2018 exhibition, which runs until Sunday 8 July, takes the form of a ‘Trench’. It marks 100 years since the end of the First World War and will see 72,396 shrouded figures stacked – one on top of another – in a free-standing wooden representation of a trench, alongside which visitors will be able to walk and view the names of all those killed in Britain’s bloodiest battle, who have no known grave.
The First World War hospital past of one of Exeter’s landmark buildings and the contribution of doctors and nurses who worked there will be commemorated.
Reed Hall, then called Streatham Hall, housed injured soldiers between 1917 and 1919. It was one of the city’s seven temporary wartime treatment centres for troops.
Experts have uncovered incredible first-hand accounts from those accommodated in the hospitals, as well as medical staff who worked there. Now a heritage plaque will be installed on Reed Hall to mark this history.
Critically acclaimed composer, musician and singer Louise Jordan performs No Petticoats Here – a collection of original songs telling the stories of real-life inspirational women
from the First World War. Based on extensive research and combining live and recorded sound, this show promises to be a theatre concert like no other; a rich visual and
auditory experience that truly connects the audience with the past
Following two successful tours Jordan has been granted Arts Council England funding to develop the...
Show of Hands, one of the leading acts in British folk, are to release a single and video to mark the centenary of the first day of WW1’s Battle of the Somme.
BBC award-winning singer songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer will offer one of Knightley’s finest songs, The Gamekeeper as a download single from July 1, tying in with a day-long tribute in their home city of Exeter to the 19240 Allied servicemen lost on the opening day of one of the worst battles in history.
That night, the Devon duo and long-term collaborator Miranda Sykes, will perform a...
The first shrouded figures in an astonishing grand-scale art installation in memory of those who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have gone on sale.
Artist Rob Heard is creating 19,240 hand-stitched figurines to represent each man who died on that day, one hundred years ago, at the beginning of the notorious World War One battle.
For each one completed he crosses a name off a list of those who died and says their name out loud to remember them.
On 1st July 2016, at 07:30 hours, exactly 100 years since the whistle was blown to ‘go over the top’, 19,...
With this year marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme people are being urged to join the three day and over 200 mile charity cycle, to commemorate the occasion.
The battle was said to be one of the bloodiest in human conflict and claimed over 1 million casualties over a four month period, it included 15 designated cycling battalions with the Devonshire regiment one of them.
The headquarters of the regiment was located in Exeter and by 1915 Devonshire regiment cyclists were being sent to France and Flanders to fight in the war.
The First World War was a time of momentous change for individual people, families and society, when thrift and economy in dress became increasingly important on the home front.
Woollen serge and silk taffeta in dark or neutral colours were frequently worn as the availability of fabrics and dyestuffs was restricted. Practical, hard-wearing suits or ‘costumes’, and washable shirt-waister blouses became a kind of everyday uniform for women in Britain during the war.
This display is part of RAMM’s four-year programme of exhibitions, displays, events and activities that focuses...
Cullompton services is currently home to a fascinating exhibition which looks to raise the profile of under-represented aspects of the First World War.
The temporary display, which runs until December 18th, offers a great chance to view recovered artefacts and learn about some of the lesser-known, but compelling, stories of the Great War.
Over 700 wartime wrecks are known to lie off the south coast of England. These include largely forgotten ships and craft of all shapes and sizes, which were carrying out a myriad of different tasks and activities when they were lost....
