Yes, I was watching 'The Village' last night. And yes, it did put me in mind of the memorial in our local village, Highgate village. It stands at the top of Swains Lane, though you easily walk past the plaque without spotting it. And as you can see, some of the names are already undecipherable and in a few years all will have been weathered into anonymity.
You can find out a little about the memorial at what was once Highgate Camp here - the names are slightly more legible on the photo on this site. I do hope someone has taken the trouble to set down the inscription before it started to wear away. This is what I make out the names to be, with some of those on the right-hand column rather less then certain transcriptions: RAYMOND C. BRICE CYRIL P. MADDAX ERNEST JOHN DODD CHAS BERNARD MILLER EDWARD E. GRIMWADE ALFRED MOORE HERBERT HEAVINGHAM HENRY MORLEY FRANK J. HOCKING, D.C.M. KENNETH H. RE... ALAN J. HOPKINS JOHN WOODWA... FELIX E. JONES, M.C. J.D. YOUNG The memorial is on a gate, and opposite is a tablet which has survived the decades slightly better. There's more about James Dawbarn Young here.
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