Abbots Leigh WW1
During the 1914-1918 war men from the village enlisted, not all returned. The Church has a Roll of Honour for WW1 The churchyard cross was restored as a war memorial in June 1921; it was unveiled by Colonel H. Cary BATTEN OBE, and dedicated by the Lord Bishop of Bristol. Survivors were welcomed home to a peel of church bells.
In fact two new monuments of Interest were erected in the church during the 20th century. Two wooden crosses brought from France hang on the walls of the tower, both looking as they might have looked when brought from the battlefield. The names of some of the heroes of the First World War who came from Abbots Leigh are inscribed upon them. In 1925, a new cross was put upon the ancient stone steps of the old preaching cross to commemorate those men from Abbots Leigh who fell in the 1914 - 1918 war.
Frederick Chamberlin is listed on the war memorial and his grave (together with his surviving parents) is in the churchyard and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He had been given a medical discharge and died nine months after the armistice and because his illness was "caused or exacerbated by his war service" he is recognised as an official war grave. The role of honour in the church does not list him as having been killed in action, so was presumably prepared before he died. The location of the grave is in location G05 on the old graveyard map.
The church also has Roll of Honour for WW2
The consecration of the war memorial cross