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A First World War project is bringing communities across the UK together to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landings.continue reading..

Museum appeals over Great War photo mystery

The team behind the Devon Remembers website, based at Budleigh Salterton’s Fairlynch Museum and supported by the Lord Clinton Charitable Trust, has appealed for help with any information people may have about an old photograph they were sent.continue reading..

Beer's 1914 generation honoured on this site

Tributes to more than 80 men from the East Devon village of Beer who fought in the Great War can now be found on this site. You can listen to researcher Richard Scott talk about the project..continue reading..

Five Beer brothers fought in Great War

Five sons of artist John White and his wife Rosetta served in the First World War, two in the same regiment. All survived the conflictcontinue reading..

Beer soldier taken prisoner after siege

The surrender of 2,600 British and more than 9,000 Indians troops is regarded by some as possibly the greatest humiliation ever inflicted upon the British Army. Stanley Westlake from Beer was among those taken prisoner.continue reading..

Merchant seamen honoured for service

To qualify for the Mercantile Marine Medal, a seaman had to have served at sea for at least six months during the war and to have undertaken at least one voyage through a danger zone.continue reading..

Volunteers guarded coast against invasion

The Volunteer Training Corps was the First World War forerunner of the Home Guard.continue reading..

Beer's sailors marched off to war together

Men of the Royal Naval Reserve were called up by the Admiralty on 3 August 1914, just before war was declared between Great Britain and Germany. continue reading..

Budleigh Salterton's Roll of Honour

Town remembers those who survived the conflictcontinue reading..

The diary of a front-line officer

He was known as the youngest Brigadier General in the British Army, but what is less well known is that the Hon John Trefusis, son of the 20th Baron Clinton, also kept his own diary throughout a large part of the Great War.continue reading..

The West family at war

Four brothers served, three came homecontinue reading..

Devon women on active service

VADs in Budleigh Salterton and beyond. Prior to the outbreak of the war, the Government and bodies including the Red Cross instigated the Voluntary Aid Detachments across the country, to provide field nursing services should hostilities break out. continue reading..

Nurse, artist and author

The story of Joyce Dennys' Great War. Artist and writer Joyce Dennys’ connections with Budleigh Salterton are well recorded, and she is also known more widely as the author of Henrietta’s War, a series of letters subtitled News from the Home Front 1939-1942.continue reading..