The memorial is a peal of 8 bells. There is a brass plaque in the church commemorating the peal of bells: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF BASFORD MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, THE PEEL OF EIGHT BELLS IN THIS TOWER WAS DEDICATED, 4 JUNE 1921 BY THE REV H T HAYMAN, M.A., RECTOR OF THORNHILL, DEWSBURY AND FORMERLY CHAPLAIN OF THE 7TH (ROBIN HOOD BATTALION), THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS There is also a Roll of Honour (book) which is kept in the church. It has a page giving details of the War Memorial Committee and there is a note that the bells cost ‘upward of £1,500’. UKNIWM Ref: 27334 - BASFORD Peel (sic) of eight bells with dedicatory brass plaque TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF BASFORD MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR, THE PEEL (sic) OF EIGHT BELLS IN THIS TOWER WAS DEDICATED, 4 JUNE 1921 BY THE REV H T HAYMAN, M.A., RECTOR OF THORNHILL, DEWSBURY AND FORMERLY CHAPLAIN OF THE 7TH (ROBIN HOOD BATTALION), THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS UKNIWM Ref: 38790 - SEELY BELL (treble bell) Given by Charles Hilton Seely and Frank Evelyn Seely 1921 UKNIWM Ref: 38791 - ST LEODEGARIUS CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND BIBLE CLASSES BELL (second bell) This bell is the offering of the Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, Scouts and Guides of the parish and their friends 1921 UKNIWM Ref: 38792 - ST LEODEGARIUS CHURCH CHOIR (third bell) Presented by the adult members of the choir 1921 UKNIWM Ref: 38793 - ST LEODEGARIUS CHURCH CLERGY (fourth bell) Presented by the clergy, churchwardens and sidesmen of Basford parish church 1921 UKNIWM Ref: 38794 - T MARRIOTT (fifth bell) In loving memory of Thomas Marriott who died in 1917. Given by his children, 1921 UKNIWM Ref: 38795 - W H HILL AND A R COX (sixth bell) In Memory Of William Henry Hill M.C.B.H. Who Died 17 March 1916 During The Great War And Arthur Robert Cox Who Served In The South African War 1899 - 1902 And Who Died 7 April 1916. UKNIWM Ref: 38796 - CAPT W E G WALKER AND LT H C S WALKER (tenor bell) In affectionate remembrance of Captain William Eaton Guy Walker and Lieut Harry Cullis Steele Walker of the Sherwood Foresters, sons of Major and Mrs Walker, Rock House, Old Basford, who fell in France in the Great War 1914 – 1918. For God, King and Country. Research by Rachel Farrand