Bow Brickhill War Memorial

The Bow Brickhill War Memorial was erected in March 1921, during the period following the First World War, which cost the United Kingdom more than one million military deaths. The memorial was officially unveiled by the dedicated on 26 March 1921 by the 12th Duke of Bedford. In 1947, names of locals who died in the Second World War were added. In 1968, the memorial was damaged; donations were collected for repairs. The memorial was re-dedicated on Remembrance Day 1988 and in 2016, two new names were added, both casualties of the First World War.

The Bow Brickhill War Memorial is a freestanding monument made of Portland stone and features 66 names inscribed and infilled with black. The monument takes the form of an octagonal shaft surmounted by a stone critself mountedunted on a two-stepped square base surmounted by a square-sectioned pinth, with shaped angles. The front face is inscribed with eight names, dedicated to the men from the civil parish of Bow Brickhill who died in the First World War (1914–1918). The other faces are inscribed with the names of men who served in the First World War and the upper step of the base has five names, men who died in the Second World War (1939–1945).