DID your ancestors live in Sturminster Marshall or the surrounding area during the First World War? Did any of them serve in the forces? What was life like in the village?

If you have any information the Priest's House Museum would like to know as part of its project The One Hundred Year Heritage of the First World War for Wimborne and East Dorset.

The museum will be at Sturminster Marshall Memorial Hall on Tuesday, February 26 February from 10am to 1pm to gather information for the initiative, which aims to record the lives of people from East Dorset who served in the forces and those who stayed behind, such as women who took on jobs left vacant by men. The information will be made available on the Heritage Lottery Fund project's website, eastdorsetfirstworldwar.org.

There will also be a small display of photographs relating to Newton Red Cross Hospital and the museum would like to hear from anyone who may have had ancestors who worked there.

Anyone with photographs, objects, letters or press cuttings relating to the local area, or to individuals, is asked to take them along.

For further information visit priest-house.co.uk or call 01202 882533.