2014 is a momentous year for historians, marking as it does the centenary since the beginning of the First World War.

Throughout this year we will be commemorating the Great War every Wednesday in the Remember When? section – but we need your help.

We will be delving into the Telegraph & Argus archives to recall some of the international events that led up to the declaration of war on August 4, 1914, and also how the conflict resonated in Bradford.

There are, of course, many tales of tragedy and triumph to be told from the headlines of the time, not least the appalling loss of life among the Bradford Pals unit on the Somme in 1916.

But we’ll also be focusing on how the war affected people in Bradford and district, and how life continued on the home front, as well as documenting the effects on morale and day-to-day living.

We also want to tell the very human stories of how people from Bradford during those years coped with the war, both here and on the battlefields of Europe.

A century on, those soldiers who fought in the war and the civilians who lived through those turbulent times are no longer with us, save for those few now past their own 100th birthdays who were little more than babies during the war.

But there must be many of us with grandparents and great-grandparents who have been left the legacy of those war years, either in pictures, letters, diaries or even medals and decorations.

We would love to hear from you with the stories of your relatives and acquaintances and what they went through in the Great War. We want to be able to tell the stories of real Bradfordians, through their own words and pictures, and how they lived through the years of 1914-1918.

Please give us as much information as you can about the photographs and memorabilia you send us so we can fully honour your family members or acquaintances in these pages. And we also want to know what life was like here in Bradford during the war years, as well as away on the battlefields of Europe.

If you want your family and friends’ stories to be a part of our special Remember When? sections throughout next year, contact Jim Greenhalf either by e-mail on jim.greenhalf@telegraphandargus.co.uk or write to him at Jim Greenhalf, Remember When? War Memories, Telegraph & Argus, Hall Ings, Bradford BD1 1JR.

If you can send us copies of your pictures and documents that would be better than originals, though we will of course return any original material sent to us.

We look forward to seeing your memorabilia and sharing your family’s stories of the First World War with the readers of the Telegraph & Argus throughout this momentous anniversary year.