How should Yeovil commemorate First World War centenary?

COUNCILLORS will be meeting tonight (Tuesday, November 12, 2013) to discuss what commemorations should be made in Yeovil to mark next year’s 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.

Arrangements are being made for a number of exhibitions to be displayed in the entrance hall of the Town House in Union Street to help mark this historic event.

Members of South Somerset District Council’s heritage team are looking to get Lottery funding to meet the costs of giving talks and producing an information booklet to commemorate the First World War – which began on August 4, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918 – for every schoolchild in the district.

PHOTO - TOP: A scene from the trenches of the First World War.

PHOTO - RIGHT: A 1914 recruitment poster depicting Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, above the words WANTS YOU was the most famous image used in the British Army recruitment campaign of the First World War.

Yeovil Town Council’s promotions and activities committee meet tonight to decide whether they would like to apply for Lottery money in order to hold extra activities to mark the centenary of the Great War.

The Somerset County Museum has asked to use the Town House for a six-week period at some point between August 2014 and November 2018 for its touring exhibition about the First World War.

The War Memorial in the Borough in Yeovil has inscribed on it the names of 226 men from the town who were killed during the First World War.

YEOVIL PRESS COMMENT: We believe it would be somewhat undignified if the honour and memory of the 226 men from Yeovil who were killed during the First World War was not commemorated in suitable fashion.

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