Bushey Museum is remembering the sacrifices local men and women made in the Great War

“We are thrilled to have received this award,“ says Dianne Payne, the Bushey resident who is the museum’s World War One co-ordinator, “which will enable us to mount an exhibition that will help everyone, especially young people, to understand the level of sacrifice made by local men and women, and the effects of the war on our community.“

The exhibition will include 50 panels telling the story of Bushey and Oxhey during World War One, and there will be displays of work by students from The Bushey Academy, where the exhibition is to be held, and St Margaret’s School in Bushey.

The exhibition is part of the Bushey First World War Commemoration Project, and sits alongside a programme of community events, talks, poetry readings and live musical performances, and a commemorative peal of bells will be rung in honour of Bertram Prewett, a nationally famous parish bell ringer who lived in the area and died in 1919.

All information gathered by researchers on this project will be digitally recorded for the future and an online interactive archive will be created, where everyone can access and contribute information.

In the future, Bushey children will be able to study letters written by men in the trenches who lived on the same streets and, in some cases, in the same houses as themselves.

As part of this important community commemoration project, a number of householders in Bushey Heath, Bushey and Oxhey, who live in a house where there was a World War One fatality, will be invited to display a temporary plaque on their window or front gate throughout August to commemorate the ultimate sacrifice made by nearly 400 young men from the area.

• Bushey During the Great War: A Village Remembers will be at The Bushey Academy, London Road, Bushey from August 4 to 24. If you would like to contribute to the Bushey First World War Commemoration Project, visit busheyworldwarone.org.uk