An art school has launched a research project to collect the stories of former students and staff who served in the First World War.

More than 400 people feature on Glasgow School of Art's (GSA) WWI Roll of Honour, which records those who served in the conflict, and those who died.

It also includes 12 women, most of whom were Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses deployed by the British Red Cross.

The memorial, commissioned in the 1920s, survived the fire which engulfed the historic Mackintosh Building in May last year intact, and is being housed in the Reid Building until restoration of the damaged structure is complete.

GSA hopes to build an archive of material about those who feature on the roll of honour, which is fully digitised.

Peter Trowles, Mackintosh curator at the GSA archives and collections, said: "Over the years the GSA lost touch with the majority of the students and staff who are remembered on the memorial.

"Whilst we know what became of some of them, for the majority we do not know what impact the conflict had on them, whether they completed their studies after the war and went on to make careers as artists, designers and architects or followed very different paths.

"We know for example that many Scots emigrated to Canada in the immediate post war years and some of our alumni were definitely among them.

"Through this research project we hope to enrich the roll of honour, collecting and telling the stories of the people whose contribution it marks."

One of those who features on the list is Tom Gentleman, who attended evening classes at the GSA between 1905 and 1911 before becoming a full-time student.

He received his diploma just before war broke out and also won the prestigious Haldane Travelling Scholarship, but had to postpone the trip due to the hostilities.

He was a First Lieutenant in the Scottish Rifles, and remained in service until the end of the war.

Afterwards he returned to Glasgow to continue day classes in drawing and painting at the GSA, and was later able to take up the Haldane Scholarship travelling in France, Italy, Corsica and Spain from 1920 to 1921.

Mr Gentleman went on to work as a freelance graphic designer and teacher before moving to London, where he married Winifred Murgatroyd, a fellow GSA student.

He then began a long career as a commercial artist working for companies ranging from London Transport to Shell and BP.

He died in 1966 at the age of 74.

His son Hugh Gentleman, now 80, said: "Both my parents studied at The Glasgow School of Art which had a great influence on them.

"It's lovely to know that the GSA is researching information on the roll of honour so that future generations can know more about the people whose service to their country is marked on the memorial."

The roll of honour was designed and created by a former student, Dorothy Doddrell, and takes the form of an illuminated parchment in paint and gold leaf set within a substantial copper and wood framed triptych with one large, central panel and two smaller side panels.

Having survived the fire it underwent planned conservation in 2014 with the support of a grant from the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund.

Anyone whose ancestors are listed on the roll of honour is asked to email archives@gsa.ac.uk if they would like to share their stories.