The photograph shows David Smallhouse, Reg Sockett and Ian Finch, renovating the war memorial in preparation for Remembrance Day. The image shows the pits headgear in the background. The main inscription of the memorial is clearly visible, and the names

Service for Dutch war veterans. Mayor Surjan Singh Duhra is mentioned.

The cenotaph appeared to be leaning in the photograph but Borough Surveyor Mr S. G. Wood felt it was an optical illusion and not due to subsidence.

Councillor W. K. Wrigley inspecting paint that had been thrown on the memorial by vandals.

Vandals had stolen the soldier’s bayonet. Reverend E. I. Carroll is quoted.

The memorial was saved by Roy Chater when the Brades Factory of Oldbury was demolished in 1969, and displayed in the clubhouse of the Bumblehole Boating Centre in Netherton. The memorial listed 300 names, 25 of whom did not return from the war. Hartlebur

Proposal to bring it down. The names on the memorial are Edwin Wellings; James Snead; Charles Hayward; William Jones; Bert Davis; Victor Upperdine; Joseph Deans; R. Standeford Pullen; Charles Henry Bickley; Frank Highway; Henry William Wellings; George D

The photograph depicts the memorial, standard bearers, veterans and the public standing to attention. The names that are visible on the faces of the memorial in the photograph include the following: John Joseph; George H. Keeling; Jack Kendall; Alfred Cha

The photograph shows the memorial and the benches surrounding it. The view includes the surrounding houses and factories. Vandals had ripped away the nameplates of six donors that had been placed on seats surrounding the war memorial. The Cannock Chase Co

Butler’s brewery were forced to move the memorial and it was rededicated in the grounds of their social club. Reverend Roy Davies and St Stephen’s Church are mentioned. The photograph shows Arthur Fowler (pointing), with Bill Werton, Walter Scott and Harr