A new group is being set up in Helston to keep the World War One commemorations going in the coming years.

A project run by the town council and Helston Museum, in collaboration with schools and community groups, saw a series of events and activities marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the conflict.

Now a new group, which will be called the World War One Joint Project, is forming to commemorate the ongoing centennial events up until 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of the war.

An open meeting will take place on Monday, February 23, from 6pm, to launch it. The meeting will be held in the mayor’s parlour, upstairs in the Guildhall and it is hoped more people interested in taking an active role will come forward.

The group plans to work in partnership with groups, schools and organisations and the focus for this year will be on an exhibition in the museum, lasting throughout November, about women in World War One.

The project group is looking for any information to help add to that, with all aspects of women in the war to be explored including nurses, munition workers, land workers, mothers and wives.

In particular it would like information about nurses Jessie Edith Borlase and Margery King.

Any information or artefacts can be left at Helston Museum, which is open Monday to Saturday between 10am and 4pm.

March 25 will see the first tolling of the parish church bell, at St Michael’s Church, which will take place on the centenary of the death of each man on the town’s war memorial. The bell will toll 100 times at 11am on each of the anniversaries.

Research to date has discovered three more men who died, but are not listed on the war memorial, and plans are in hand to have their names added.

The group has plans for various exhibitions and projects over the next three and a half years, but much will depend on a funding bid to Heritage Lottery and the group would be grateful for any help, in the form of supporting letters, from any local organisations.

Any offers of information, loan of artefacts or support can be sent to Martine Knight on jointww1project@talktalk.net or by calling 01326 564710.