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Just a couple of hundred yards away from the Earthwork at NZ 647117 is a memorial erected in memory of Grenadier Guards Robbie Leggott and Alf Cockerill who before doing their duty for King & Country were Guisborough Estate Workers and tended sheep on these moors.Robbie was killed on the Somme in 1916 and Alf eventually died of wounds in 1919 after being shot in the head at Ypres, also in 1916. Both volunteered in 1914. They are also remembered on the Commondale village War Memorial. When one thinks of the hundreds of thousand killed in WWI these two men must have been extremely well thought of for someone to go to the trouble of erecting this stone in what would have been a remote area and as can be seen in the photo they are still remembered. This photo taken in March 2012