'I beg of you that when you go away from here today that you don't say to yourselves that we have put up this memorial to these men and have done our duty by them, and now let us think of other things. I do ask you to look on what you are doing here today as just the beginning of a long act of reverence and respect to the memory of those men. Let us forget as much as we can about the war, but never let the memory of these men die in this parish…...these memorials are put up more for the generations to come than for us ... show the memorial to your children for they may have to do the same one day !'
Dedication of the West Calder war memorial
26th December 1921

St Leonard's Church
Seaford
East Sussex


This site is very much in its early stages

Over the next few years it will be developed to reflect the enormous variety of First World War memorials that exist in parish churches

The churches that are recorded to date are in the south-east of England

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Jim Fanning
East Sussex
Updated May 2002

St John's Church
Piddinghoe
East Sussex

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