Peterborough Standard - Saturday 21 August 1920 (page 7) reported:
'UNREST and SELFISHNESS.
LORD EXETER'S TIMELY WORDS AT NEWBOROUGH.
Newborough and Boro' Fen's tribute to the 25 men from the parish who gave their lives during the war, in the shape of a Latin cross, with a bronze laurel wreath on a rock, has been unveiled by the Marquis of Exeter. It is a very effective memorial, erected, at a cost of £200, in the churchyard, overlooking the roadway. and bears the following inscription: In Memory of Newborough and Borough Fen Heroes Who Sacrificed Their Lives for King and Country during the War, 1914-1918. Percy Reedman. John Hillson. Harry Lane. Henry Barnes. George Lane. Walter Sutton. David Hopkins. Jesse Stacey.
Before the unveiling ceremony a service was held in the Church, when the Rector (the Rev. J. T. Trott) delivered an appropriate sermon, in the absence of Canon Maskew.
There was a large gathering at the unveiling, including besides the Marquis, Lord Burghley, the Rector, the Rev. W. Softley (Crowland), Mr. T. H. Vergette, Mr and Mrs. F. W Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Little, Mr. and Mrs. R. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Odam, Messrs. J. Harris, R. C. Goodliffe, A. E. Law, G. T. Godfrey, J. J. Mitchell, C. H. Wright, H. Cox and Geo. Eve, Miss Hilda Trott, etc. The ex-Servicemen of the parish, under Capt. R. Crowden, had also paraded, and they included Messrs. W. Goodliffe, A. Allen (Northants), H Waterfall (7th Berks.), A. Hopkins, W. Murden (Northants.), J. Cox (9th Norfolks), F. Rands (Northants), R. Glover (Norfolks), H. R. Freeman (Royal Sussex), J. Eve (R.F.A.), J. Junks (.S.C.), F. Harris (R.F.A.), F. M. Odam (A.V.C.), W. Dudley (Norfolks), G. Barnes (Royal Sussex), A. Barnes, A. Wright. J. White and H. Wright (Northants), J. Smart (K/O/Y/L/I/), C. Sutton, W. Wright (Northants), W. Woodcock (Norfolks), V. Murden (Northants), J. Harris, W, Pestell (Sherwood Foresters), G. W. Nicholls, A. H. Barnes (Northants), and others.
The Marquis of Exeter said he would like to offer sincere sympathy to those who had lost their dear ones in the war. He asked them to remember with thankfulness that when the terrible catastrophe came upon us in 1914 there were good men and true to go to serve their country and save it from undoubted disaster. Let them remember also that there were problems of peace before the nation almost as great as the problems of war. During the war the men and women of England stuck together, shoulder to shoulder, to bring about the victory, but whilst that was a grand thing - a great memory - he asked them to bear in mind that it was just as important now that we should hang together to win a successful peace. It was up to everyone in England, and throughout the Empire, to remember the sacrifices that had been made, and not to let them be in vain. There was too much unrest and selfishness apparent today, too much squabbling over small things, which blurred the vision and postponed the attainment of essentials. Let us take a courageous common-sense view of the situation around them, and do their duty now the war was over, and victory achieved, as they did during the war, and as did those noble fellows whose memory they so tangibly celebrated that evening. The National Anthem brought the memorable proceedings to an end'.
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