Oxford college's WW1 memorial plan approved

The Queen's College's plan has been approved by Oxford City Council

An Oxford college has been told it can add the names of foreign soldiers to a memorial for former students who died fighting in World War One.

The Queen's College will add five new names to the 121 names on the memorial.

Oxford City Council approved a plan that was submitted by the college in the spring.

A proposal to add the new names - including the three German soldiers - followed a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.

The Queen's College said the "appropriate and unobtrusive response" was "justified by the need to remember all members of the college community who died".

The names that will added are:

• Carl Heinrich Hertz, who was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1893 and died in France in 1918

• Erich Joachim Peucer, who was born in Colmar in 1888 - which is now in France but was then part of the German Empire - and died in Italy in 1917

• Hungarian Paul Nicholas Esterházy, who matriculated in 1901 and died in 1915 in Poland

• Gustav Adolf Jacobi, who was born in Weimar in Germany in 1885 and is thought to have died fighting in 1914. He is already included on a memorial at Rhodes House in Oxford

• Emile Jacot, who fought in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was wounded and died of his injuries in 1928. It is unclear where he was born