The land for the Memorial Garden was gifted to the Parish by the 4th Earl Lord Londesborough and the Memorial itself was carved from Italian marble at a cost of £600. It depicts a soldier in the uniform of the Lincolnshire Regiment with his rifle reversed and head bowed.The Memorial was unveiled on 12 December 1920 by Irene Mountbatten, Marchioness of Carisbrooke (sister to the 4th Earl Lord Londesborough). Also in attendance was the local MP of the time Lt Col Sir Edmund Royds MP and the dedication of the memorial wsa carried out by Reverent William Ignatius Snell Rawson.
Two of the soldiers named on the memorial, Cpl Arthur Hannath and Pte J F Wright, are buried in Commonwealth War Graves in the churchyard. They are remembered with wreaths every Remembrance Sunday after the main ceremony in the War Memorial Garden.
Please use this link to see the Roll of Honour
1920 War Memorial
and more recently
War Graves of 18769 Corporal A Hannath, Lincolnshire Regiment
War Grave of 8/11723 Private J F Wright, Lincolnshire Regiment
