The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.
The fallen soldiers of Eastwood are commemorated at two memorials, one at the junction of Plumtree Way and Nottingham Road and a second at the junction of Edward Road and Nottingham Road.