VOICES from the past were resurrected as a cemetery came to life last weekend during a costumed commemoration of World War I.

Members of the Flackwell Heath and Loudwater Local History Group dressed up and headed for Little Marlow Cemetery to guide onlookers through stories of men and women facing in the trenches or on the Home Front.

The date, September 14, was significant - it was the day 100 years ago that the first British trench was dug on the Western Front.

The stories included that of Hubert Ray Secker, 24, who was shelled, wounded, torpedoed and suffering from shell shock when he returned home in November 1918 only to die from flu two and half weeks after the Armistice.

Costumed historians also related the harrowing tale of the Rogers family, who lost four sons to the devastating conflict.

And Ernest Hester, who fought and survived both the First and the Second World War succumbed to TB in 1947, aged 48, having contracted the condition while on active service.

His Commonwealth War Grave, along with that of George Plumridge, a WW1 naval rating, aged 18, represents the sacrifice made by all the families