A PROJECT invited the public to help commemorate the fallen heroes of the First World War.

Aural history project One Name One Voice attended the Cambrian at War event at Oswestry Railway Station on Saturday (August 18) as part of its efforts to record all the names of the Shropshire men who fell in the Great War.

Event organiser, David Owen, said: "We have held a memorial event each year since 2014 to mark the centenaries of the men named on the Cambrian Railways memorial (many of them from Oswestry), in which we have lit the memorial candle and laid poppies."

This year’s Cambrian at War event had a visit from a convoy of Second World War vehicles from the Shropshire and Mid Wales Military Vehicle Group.

Mayor of Oswestry, councillor Sandy Best, lit the memorial lamp and laid ceramic poppies made by students at North Shropshire College in memory of the railway employees - three of whom were from Oswestry - who died in the conflict.

Fifteen relatives of Duddleston man John Rodgers, a goods clerk with the Cambrian Railway, came along to mark the centenary of his death aged just 18.

A short memorial service, to which members of the public were invited, was led by Rev Dr John Chesworth, with a Welsh prayer by Glyn Evans and a reading of Wilfred Owen's poem The Send-Off, by eight year old Caitlyn Burley.

Oswestry Wild Singers provided musical entertainment.

The Cambrian Railways ran from Whitchurch and Wrexham to Aberystwyth, Pwllheli and Brecon, a total of 230 miles, and had its headquarters at Oswestry.

A total 400 staff left to go to war, with 53 of them making the ultimate sacrifice. Each name was remembered on a bronze memorial which stood on the main platform at Oswestry Railway Station until it closed to passengers and it was transferred to Cae Glas Park.