Oswestry college commemorates WWI
College students have been remembering local heroes with an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of World War I.
The libraries of Walford and North Shropshire College have planned out a programme of exhibitions during the academic year, with the latest featuring displays about the war.
Each of the college's two campuses has its own exhibition with each taking a different look at the effects of the war on county people.
As expected in the town of his birth, poet Wilfred Owen is central to the display at the Oswestry campus. Alongside some of his poems and information about his life are individual diary extracts from the BBC history gallery which also illustrate the human cost of war.
In the Walford Campus library there is a linked display which includes a shell case that was brought back to Shrewsbury from Italy by Private Edgar Cooper. Private Cooper had an interesting campaign, meeting his father, Edgar Cooper Senior, while they were both serving on the Italian Front at Thiene during the North East Italy campaign from 1915-1917.
Both exhibitions are also promoting a range of print and online resources from the college's collections relating to the literature, history and art of the period.
Members of the public are welcome to visit both libraries and view the displays and related resources.
