A NEW exhibition, chronicling an Oxford battalion's key role during World War I, was officially opened on Friday.

Oxford Brookes University opened its Beyond the Western Front exhibition on November 18.

The exhibition presents the Oxford and Buckinghamshire battalions’ experiences of the Italian, Balkan, Middle Eastern and Russian campaigns during the 1914-1918 war.

The exhibition is made up of three interconnecting sections which examine personal histories, as well as displaying artefacts and 3D 'anaglyphs' and other imagery.

Tudor Georgescu, Associate Lecturer in History and History of Art at Oxford Brookes University said: “Ultimately, the exhibit aims to be an informal, engaging space in which to rediscover a remarkable perspective on the history of World War I, and to encourage a conversation about what it means to us during the centenary commemorations and beyond.”

The event will show research projects conducted by the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum and Oxford Brookes staff and students which explore the personal histories found in the museum archives.

There are also artefacts which are on loan from the museum showing the material legacies of the war, as well as stereoscopic pictures converted to 3D 'anaglyphs' that reinvent these images to make them accessible to a wider audience.

The exhibition will run until December 16 at the Glass Tank, Abercrombie building on the Headington Campus.

It is free and open to all and is open between 9am and 5pm.