At our Lea Mills home in Matlock, Derbyshire we have Memorial plaques dedicated to the employees of John Smedley that lost their lives fighting for their country during the First and Second World War. The plaques sit on the wall, immediately next to the door to Reception; this reminds all employees and any visitors of the sacrifice that those men made: ‘For your tomorrow, we gave our today’.
The WWI Memorial reads: In memory of the men who went from Lea Mills and died for their country in The Great War 1914-1918. On the Memorial the names of the men who fell are inscribed also: