"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."

General Sir Francis Davies at the dedication of the war memorial 1921.