The Memorial was unveiled in Yeoman Hill Park on Sunday 3^rd June 1923. The service commenced at 2:30pm and was attended by some 10,000 people. There were over 400 relatives of the fallen that attended, the rest were made up of Sunday School children, local choirs, Colliery bands, Officials from the Mansfield Woodhouse Urban District Council and local dignitaries

The service lasted 2 hours and the crowd blocked the majority of the roads in Mansfield Woodhouse

The chairman of the War Memorial Committee W F Warner wrote and read out a poem

In Memoriam

This in remembrance of the noble dead:

Bravely they fought and bled, and nobly died,

On land and sea: no cross, no mark to point

The sacred spot where many a hero fell.

And here to-day, and all the days to come,

Their silent presence gently speaks to us:

And, did we listen with desire to hear

The still small voice of those we loved in life-

Hearken Soul speaks to soul these solemn words:

‘We leave our dear ones to your tend’rest care’

‘Let not our sacrifice be made in vain:

‘The sacrifice we made for all we loved,

For home, for kith and kin and country dear,

We’d make again and yet again, that Might

Should never triumph over Right.

We thought

Not of ourselves, think not of us as dead

But living in the mem’ry of those deeds

You count as nobly done: and then pass on

Right down to generations yet unborn

The truth that sacrifice of self alone

Can bring that peace we call the peace of God.

That peace is ours

And ere you leave this spot,

Made sacred by the message which it brings.

Oh! Let there be one sigh of sweet desire,

One prayer that you, by some small sacrifice