When their heroes fell a town recognised the enormity of their sacrifice. Their 175 names are embossed on plaques on two sides of a war memorial.
The men from the Whitefield area were killed in the First World War. On a third side of the cenotaph there are a further 80 names of local men who died in the Second World War.
When so many of the town's men failed to return from the Great War of 1914-18 not only did the town build a cenotaph but also, nearby, laid out gardens, known as Hamilton Park, and neighbouring tennis courts, and Stand cricket ground in their memory.
