The total cost for adding the name plaques to our town's War Memorial is going to be £60,000. This is not a small sum of money for ordinary folk such as ourselves to raise! However, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council have generously promised a contribution of £15,000 towards the project, but as of now (Spring 2008), this still leaves us a way to go before work can begin on the long overdue upgrade of the monument.

Some people may feel the required work is entirely a civic responsibility, but If you feel as we do that this is a matter for the community itself to mark and commemorate the sacrifice made by our own townsfolk, then you may wish to make your own personal contribution toward the cost of adding the name plaques to the site.

When making your own decision about whether you wish to contribute or not please do ask yourselves one simple question - "How would I feel if this was one of my own sons or daughters whose names where due to be commemorated?"

If you are a UK resident we will happily accept either a cheque drawn on a UK based bank account or a British Postal Order.

If you are resident outside the UK, but wish to make a donation please use an International Monetary Order made out in UK sterling.

On behalf of the Memorial Group may we thank all of you who decide to make a donation. However small all donations are most gratefully accepted.

Please help us to make this as successful a campaign on 'their' behalf - as the ones the fought on our behalf across the globe!

Contributing Archival Materials

If you have any archive material relating to those who names appear on the Rolls (or other material you think would be of historical interest) and wish to preserve it for the benefit and education of future generations, then then do get in touch with us. In the first instance you can do this by emailing or writing to us with the details of the individual the material concerns, and a brief outline of the type of materials you wish to place into the archive. Please also supply your own contact details in this correspondence so we can get back in touch with you to discuss the matter further. Examples of the kind of archival material that would be suitable for donation might include:

• Citations & obituaries, Newspaper clippings, Photographs (particularly service life images etc).Military records, Personal diaries, papers, letters that cover their service period.
• Memorabilia that relate to an individual (such as uniform items, decoration ribbons etc).