The Borough War Memorial, Yeovil

This project set out to draw up a criteria list to assess people who should be included on the ‘Roll of Honour’ on the Yeovil War Memorial, and to carry out a thorough investigation of potential people who should be included on its plaques. The outcome of our investigations determined the names of fifty three additional men as being eligible for listing on the Memorial - including a Yeovil-born soldier who had been shot for desertion, the need to correct a number of misspelt names and also identifying the names of two men missing from the Preston Plucknett War Memorial (located on the Preston Road in Yeovil). We then arranged for the manufacture and installation of new plaques, containing our findings of corrected and additional names on the ‘Roll of Honour’. Having cleaned and restored the stone memorial, and having had the two previously omitted names engraved on the Preston Plucknett Memorial, the Borough War Memorial was rededicated on Sunday 11th November 2018 to mark the centenary of Armistice Day. This entire project was funded by Yeovil Town Council, with the invaluable support of two local historians - Bob Osborn, creator of the website 'A-Z of Yeovil's History'), and a local branch member of the Royal British Legion. The photograph shows the restored Borough War Memorial.