A FIRST World War exhibition on how parishioners in the Brentor area contributed to the war effort both home and abroad, is being held at Brentor Village Hall starting this Saturday (November 8).

A total of 55 young men left the parish to fight in France and further afield and 19 young men are recorded on the war memorial as giving the ultimate sacrifice.

The Brentor Living Archive Group is holding the exhibition, and through its extensive collection of early photographs, along with original records loaned from West Devon Record Office and from personal family papers, the exhibition explores what it was like to live in a Dartmoor village during the war.

Through children collecting moss and eggs to the resistance by local farmers to women working on the farms and from the shortage of blacksmiths to the control of food, the exhibition examines what it was like with the main breadwinner off fighting.

Experts will be on hand to discuss people's own family's contributions and advice on how to take their own personal researches further.

The exhibition will be open on Saturday, November 8 from 11am to 5pm and Sunday, November 9 from noon to 4pm.