MEDALS of Oxford-born First World War hero Noel Chavasse and his family are to go on permanent display at an Oxford college.

In August, dozens watched as a paving stone in honour of Captain Chavasse, the only winner of two Victoria Crosses in the First World War, was baptised in front of St Peter's College.

A ceremony was also held on Armistice Day at Noel Chavasse's old school, Magdalen College School, to officially unveil a new paving stone depicting the two VCs he was awarded.

Now a collection of the family's war medals is to be unveiled at the college, founded in 1929 by his father Bishop Francis James Chavasse and identical twin Christopher Chavasse, who was the first master.

Bursar James Graham said: "The Master, fellows, students and staff of St Peter's are delighted that such an important collection of medals should be given a permanent home in the college chapel, which is so intimately linked with the Chavasse family, and welcome members of the public to visit them during normal college hours."

The collection has been assembled after the Chavasse family approached the college about re-uniting the family medals, along with replicas of Noel's, in the college chapel.

Noel and Christopher both served the First World War, as did their two younger brothers, Francis Bernard and Aidan.

Their sister May, herself one of a set of twins, also served during the conflict as a ward maid in the Liverpool Hospital, a mobile hospital based on the Front.

Noel, Christopher, Bernard, Aidan and May were awarded 21 medals as a result of their actions during the conflict.

Of the four brothers who served, two were killed - Aidan on July 4, 1917 and Noel on August 4, 1917.

Christopher Chavasse bequeathed his medals, and those won by his brother, to the college following his retirement as Master in 1939.

They were kept in a bank vault until the early 1980s, when they were given to the Imperial War Museum on long-term loan.

In 2009, Lord Ashcroft acquired Noel Chavasse's original medals, which can now be found in the Ashcroft Gallery at the IWM.

The college chapel, once the parish church of St Peter-le-Bailey, is home to the original wooden cross from Noel Chavasse's grave in Belgium.

It is also the place where all seven Chavasse children - Noel, Christopher, Francis Bernard, Aidan, May, Marjorie and Dorothea - were baptised and where their father, Francis James Chavasse, served as Rector from 1877 to 1889.

The medals will be unveiled at 6pm on Wednesday, November 30 by members of the Chavasse family and the Rt Rev James Jones, former bishop of Liverpool, just before a talk by Rt Rev Jones entitled The ways of God are strange: faith in the trenches of the First World War.

Members of the public are welcome to attend both the unveiling and the talk.

Details of how to register can be found at amesjonestalk.eventbrite.co.uk