PUPILS in Abingdon will help protect local memories of World War One ahead of the centenary of the conflict's end.

Members of the public are invited to Our Lady's Abingdon School to bring wartime artefacts and heirlooms and share their stories about them.

A team of Year 9 and Lower Sixth students will be on hand to carry out interviews, photograph the items and upload them onto an archive Oxford University is creating.

Anyone with a relative's letter from the front line, medals, helmets or souvenirs from World War One, is asked to bring them along.

The event is part of Lest We Forget, a project that supports local community efforts to digitise memorabilia and personal accounts of World War One ahead of the 2018 centenary of Armistice Day. Once collected, these stories will be made available to the public through a large, free-to-use online database, which will be launched in November.

More information about the project is available via oxreach.hubbub.net/p/lestweforget/

The Abingdon event will take place on Friday, March 9 from 1pm until 4pm.

Refreshments will be available and there is no need to book.

The town will hold a weekend of events to commemorate the anniversary of the end of war on November 10 and 11, including the tradition of bun throwing.