Twickenham Museum received £9,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its Football at the Front project.

The project looks at the 1914 Christmas truce that inspired rifleman Frank Edwards to kick a football ahead of the Battle of Loos in 1915.

His act stirred Twickenham captain Wilfred “Billie” Nevill to do the same on the first day of the Somme in July 1916.

Ed Harris, Twickenham Museum trustee, said: “We are thrilled to have received the support of the HLF and look forward to involving as many of the local community as we can in commemorating two largely unknown local heroes who played the greater game.”

The money was awarded from the HLF’s then and now programme that gave grants of £3,000 to £10,000 for communities to mark the centenary of the First World War.