The Coalville Times in 1921 has now been uploaded covering articles in that year related to the First World War. Although the war had been over for nearly three years, there was still a lot of articles and reports in the paper reporting on the local villages organising and building war memorials, plaques and other memorials.
In January, Ibstock Parish Church unveiled a memorial window. Coalville were deciding on the location of their war memorial, which had been talked about since the end of the war and would not see its unveiling for a further five years. Whitwick Wesleyan Church had a tablet containing eight former church workers who died in the war unveiled. The Ibstock War Memorial in Central Road was completed and a ceremony took place in February 1921. Measham’s War Memorial in the Parish Church was unveiled in May. A tablet was similarly unveiled in the Wesleyan Church in Markfield in the same month. A memorial window and tablet was unveiled in August in the Oaks in Charnwood Church. The Whitwick War Memorial was also unveiled in November of this year in the churchyard and contains the names of 82 men of the district who gave their lives. You can read the full articles of all these reports as well as many more events in the ‘Whitwick in Print’ section, as well as all the years since the start of the war in August 1914.
