Several wartime rolls of honour are displayed in the Cheviot Museum. One is a handsome oak tablet headed 'South Africa / 1900-1903 / Lest We Forget', which lists the names of 12 local men who served in the South African War. There is also the Cheviot First World War roll of honour, listing 148 names (35 deaths). This was originally unveiled in the Cheviot town hall on 22 October 1922. A Second World War roll of honour was also unveiled in the hall on Anzac Day 1948. The town hall was refurbished and reopened, with all three rolls of honour on display, as the Cheviot Memorial Hall on 28 May 1954.
The Cheviot Memorial Hall was demolished in 1981 and the rolls of honour were transferred to the Cheviot Museum.
The museum today also holds a roll of honour headed 'Members of the Cheviot County on active service 1939-1972', which lists the names of men who served in Japan, Korea, Malaya or Vietnam; and a Second World War memorial plaque from Gore Bay School which lists the names of nine former pupils who served in the war.
There is a stone bench and accompanying plaque outside the museum erected by the Cheviot RSA and the Cheviot Historical Records Society in honour of Captain Charles Hazlett Upham, V.C. and Bar, who died in 1994.
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