First displayed in 2014, the collection has been travelling across the state for the past three years.

Tallangatta is the third-last of 19 stops before it is finally retired.

The remarkable stories of Sandy, the only war horse of 136,000 to return to Australia, and two brothers of the Wood family feature in local content, curated by library staff.

SLV public libraries manager Debra Rosenseldt said more than 200,000 people had seen the exhibition so far.

“In 2015, 16, and 17 we had it hosted by 12 library services,” she said.

“We had such a positive response we decided to see if other services were interested in hosting it and without any trouble six came on board.

“We were really keen for the exhibition to be seen by people in country Victoria who don’t have the same number of opportunities to see exhibitions, particularly from the State Library.”

Drawn from the State Library’s collection, the personal accounts from the war of seven people – a nurse, bank clerk, farmer, sports master, journalist, artist and activist – have been digitised.

Ms Rosenseldt’s personal favourite is the collection from Jessie Traill, an artist born in Brighton.

“She was working as a volunteer and based in France for nearly four years,” she said.

“Because she was an artist, she kept a journal but it wasn’t just her writing – she did cartoons and sketches of life on the front that are really very moving. These are personal, they aren’t historians’ perspectives, they are words from the people that went to war.

“Every community has a hero of some sort and a really interesting story.”

Robyn Wood has written a book on the history of her husband Wal Wood’s family – namely his grandfather who had the same name.

It took years of research and was intended as a resource for the Wood family.

Only two copies are accessible publicly, one in the Tallangatta Library and one at the Australian War Memorial.