A project to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War has received a boost.

Kent in WW1, a Heritage Lottery-funded programme run by Screen South, is designed to tell the story of those who gave their lives in the conflict.

A website, which will be up and running in January, will feature Kent-based people, places and events that played a part in the so-called Great War.

A film is also scheduled to follow, with the overall aim of putting faces to the many names on the county’s war memorials.

To help with the project, members of the public have been asked for personal pictures and mementos from the war.

Darrianne Price, head of Screen South’s programme, visited Sittingbourne Central Library, where she took delivery of a number of fascinating artefacts.

She said: “We got a really interesting picture which was taken under the bridge at Ridham Dock.

“It showed rows and rows of ordnance and equipment which had come back from the front to be sorted and recommissioned. Interestingly, most of the people in the photograph were women.

“It’s our aim to form a coherent story from the pieces of jigsaw we’re picking up from all over the place.” For more information, email info@kentww1.com