to that terrible loss, 'with the greatest collective act of remembrance that this country has ever seen." "'Memorials to the dead of the First World War.'" "Here, the inscription is," ""To the glorious memory of the men of Broughton Poggs"" "and there's name after name, all in this tiny village." "You sometimes find in churches these." "The wooden crosses that were erected on the battlefields themselves during the war." "This one memorialises Captain Hardcastle, all of those lieutenants and, dear God," "78 NCOs and men, some of whom are buried near this spot." "They don't even know where they were killed." "That this was placed at the time by the companions of the men who fell, and was then later brought back by those who loved them tobring it here to an English parish church is itself, I think, a very moving act." "An act of true remembrance." "It was as a result of what happened in the Great War, this terrible loss of life, that there was a change in the church." "A change to something that hadn't been seen in hundreds of years, and that was prayers for the dead." "Praying for the dead had been a common feature of the Middle Ages, but the Reformation threw it out." "But now, in the face of this appalling tragedy, people wanted once again to pray for the people that they had lost." "They wanted once again to have that communion with the departed." "'Just as our medieval ancestors had built Chantry Chapels in which