War Memorials – Bedworth

The three-tiered stone war memorial is in the grounds of the churchyard. It was erected in 1920 in honoured memory of the Bedworth men who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. The inscription reads as follows:

In Honoured Memory of the Bedworth Men Who Fell in the Great War 1914 – 1918
This Monument is Erected by their Fellow Parishioners and Friends AD1920.

Forget Us Not O Land for which We Died
Keep Thy Bright Banners Without Spot or Stain
Lest We Should Think that We have Died in Vain
1914 – 1918

The inscription for WWII reads as follows:

To the Enduring Memory of the Bedworth Men Who Gave their Lives
1939- 1945

Armistice Day. It was just after 1939 when the country decided to celebrate Armistice Day on the nearest Sunday to the famous date of 11th November. However, the people of Bedworth have observed a two-minute silence at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month every year since 1923, and it is believed to be the only town to do so.

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