Radford St Peter

War Memorial

First World War

The War Memorial
in the churchyard		 The inscription on the
base of the
War Memorial

Outside

There is a memorial cross outside the church erected in 1920.

Inside

There is also an oak tablet of eleven panels with names of 338 men from the parish who died in the Great War which was placed in the chancel in 1921.

The War Memorial with the 11 panels of names

At the bottom of the left-most two panels have been added three names from the Second World War:

BURROWS G.H.   11’9’44   CLARKE H.M.   15’10’41
    CLARKE R.   30’3’43

Spanning the seven middle panels at the bottom is the text:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 +