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Bewcastle War Memorial is located inside the Church yard and commemorates those from the area that fell predominantly in the First World War.

Listed below are the names of those inscribed on the memorial.

Rank Name Date and location Unit Age
Lance Corporal Christopher Armstrong 31-07-1917 Grenadier Guards 33
Driver George Armstrong 30-10-1918 Australian Field Artillery 29
Private Hugh Armstrong 10-06-1917 Border Regiment 22
Private John Armstrong 19-08-1915 Border Regiment unknown
Private Richard Armstrong 27-07-1915 Australian Infantry 32
Corporal Thomas Beaty 10-07-1917 Border Regiment 30
Private William Beaty 25-02-1917 Border Regiment 22
Trooper John Costigan 27-08-1944 Royal Tank Regiment 27
Private Joseph Dodd 26-09-1916 Manitoba Regiment 24
Pilot Officer John Dodd 13-12-1940 248 Squadron, RAF 27
Sapper Robert Easton 19-02-1918 Royal Engineers unknown
Private John Forrester 8-12-1917 London Scottish 33
Private John Forrester 27-10-1942 Black Watch 21
Private John Gass 11-06-1917 Border Regiment 34
Private David Jackson 31-07-1917 Northumberland Fusiliers unknown
Private William Little 1918 New Zealand Force unknown
Private William Moscrop 6-11-1917 Border Regiment 23
Private William Murray 16-05-1915 Border Regiment unknown
Sapper Reuben Nicholson 16-12-1944 Royal Engineers 19
Sergeant Robert Nixon 12-08-1910 Shropshire Regiment 33
Sapper James Routledge 6-11-1918 Royal Engineers unknown
Private Alfred Varley 3-09-1916 Durham Light Infantry 24
Private Adam Waugh 3-10-1916 Canadian Infantry 43
Sergeant Frederick Waugh 26-10-1943 Royal Artillery 27
Private Robert Waugh 3-03-1919 West Kent Yeomanry 33
Sergeant Septimus Waugh 7-06-1917 Yorkshire Regiment 29