The churchyard has memorials to two of the crew of a WW1 bomber which crashed near the village in 1918, the worst aviation accident in the then fledgling RAF.

A simple cross records the loss of Captain Eric Back, RN, of HMS Natal, his wife and nearly 400 crew and civilians by an internal explosion. 

He was a son of the Maxstoke vicar, the Rev Samuel

Back.

On the wall by the road are recorded the names of six men from Maxstoke who also died in WW1:Alfred Antrobus, Albert Ashby, Joseph Brookes, William Goode and John Lyner.