Pevensey Goes to War project goes live online
An interesting project has emerged online that commemorates the local soldiers of Pevensey who lost their lives in the Great War. The timeline enables people to search and find relatives and study the course of the First World World War from a local perspective.
Useful tools are employed to give people the opportunity to work visually with the timeline, studying events and details of the men and their lives.
By developing the project in this way there is an opportunity to take in something of the scale of the horror of the events, the local scale of the seminal war event of the twentieth century and something of the meaning of the scale of the horror and loss from the point of view of Pevensey.
Acknowledging the local lives of the men who lost their lives in the First World War in this way, is a fitting tribute in the technological age of 2016.
The project will enable local schoolchildren, relatives and researchers to study the lives of the men who fought for this country and lost their lives, in a way that enables us all to remember their ultimate sacrifice.
The project begins with the words “Over 100 years ago Pevensey Went to War. This is the story of the men who fought for us and the Battles they fought in”.
One of the first entries, for 1 September 204. says that “In 1914 Britain’s army was seriously understrength and local man Colonel Claude Lowther, who owned Herstmonceux Castle, set up recruitment offices in Eastbourne and Bexhill. Within 2 days he had raised a battalion of local men who were fired by patriotism and a sense of adventure. They trained at Cooden Camp and were known as “Lowthers Lambs. LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THEY WOULD SOON BE SENT TO THE SLAUGHTER”.
Credit to local volunteer resident Carolyn Little who has been instrumental in developing and implementing the project.
The project Pevensey Goes to War is a first class online resource for local people and visitors to Pevensey.
Project here
Pevensey Villages Partnership:
Pevensey Goes to War
