A retired Army officer has spent the past eight years researching the stories behind all the names in the Penzance Book of Remembrance.
Major Bob Harrison, who lives in the town, spent hours searching through old newspapers to find out what happened to those who died in World War I and World War II.
He also discovered 850 bombs had fallen on Penzance during WWII.
Maj Harrison said war memorials, or books of remembrance, often contained little more than a name and not the detail of what happened.
