Local soldiers in Carshalton who lost their lives in The Great War will have a memorial unveiled in their memory on July 15 in Wrythe.

‘The Men of the Wrtyhe’ will be the name of the new memorial cross.

245 soldiers from the area signed up for WW1 with 45 failing to return home.

Chair of the Wrythe Memorial Events, Dick Bower said: “In those days, the Wrythe was an ‘outlying portion’ of Carshalton village with 195 tiny cottages, occupied by very large and poor working families.

“They had no running water and had to use a communal pump. There were five small shops, one public house and two beer houses and cows grazed in the fields where the petrol station now stands.

He added: “The event has been arranged by members of your local community. We should like to thank all the performers and stallholders for their support. We want to pay tribute to the men whose names appear on the cross. Please help us to honour their memory and make this a day to remember.”

Below is the days schedule in the marquee on Wrythe Recreation Ground:

12:00 Band of the Surrey Yeomanry

12:45 Songs from around 1917, performed by ‘Songs on Wheels’

13:30 A talk by local author and WW1 researcher, Andrew Arnold

14:15 Retro tunes from twin singers, Rob and Anthony Scales

15:00 A big band from the Surrey Yeomanry

15:45 The Impromptu Choir

16:30 Musicians playing tunes popular 100 years ago