UK - Cirencester -Locals and war memorial

Locals from Cirencester in the county of Gloucestershire sit below the first world war memorial on St John Baptist church wall in the city centre. A mother and child sit on a bench below the names of those local men lost in the first war (AD1914-18) - the 200 names tell a story of the lost generation of youth, now replaced by the modern Brit, unused to self-sacrifice and loss on an unimaginable scale. The church is medieval, renowned for its perpendicular porch, fan vaults and merchants' tombs. (Photo by Richard Baker/In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)