Men from Nové Mesto and its villages were conscripted and died on every front the empire had — in the Balkans, in Galicia, in Romania, in Russia and on the Piave in Italy. A good number of those taken prisoner joined the Czechoslovak Legions and turned their rifles round against Austria-Hungary, which is how a monarchy's soldiers became a republic's founders. The monument in town to the dead of both world wars was put up in 1935, when the survivors of the first were still middle-aged men.Muži z Nového Mesta a okolitých dedín narukovali a umierali na všetkých frontoch, ktoré monarchia mala — na Balkáne, v Haliči, v Rumunsku, v Rusku aj na talianskej Piave. Nemálo z tých, čo padli do zajatia, vstúpilo do československých légií a obrátilo pušky proti Rakúsko-Uhorsku; takto sa z vojakov monarchie stali zakladatelia republiky. Pomník padlým v oboch svetových vojnách postavili v meste roku 1935, keď tí, čo prvú prežili, boli ešte muži v strednom veku.
