The war memorial in the church is a stark reminder of the impact of the first world war on the village community. Seventeen men from the village died in the war and many of the surnames are ones that crop up in other contexts – Heath, Taylor, Potter, Chapman, Wormald for example.
The memorial records just one death of a serviceman in the second world war – Private Reginald (Reg) George Taylor of the 2nd Cambridgeshire Regiment (although Captain J. C. Lewis Jonas, the son of Lewis Carter Jonas, the rector, was killed in action in Germany in April 1945 just a few short days before the end of the war in Europe). Reg died of malaria in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Thailand on the 18th November 1943. His family kept a number of very poignant documents which tell their own sad story – a story replicated in so many families across the world in those dark days.
