Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Hertsmere
- Town
- Potters Bar
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: December 1920
Attended by: Rear Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey GCVO KCMG CB
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 917
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Current location
Memorial garden
High Street
Potters Bar
Hertsmere
Hertfordshire
EN6 5AX
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 26152 01200
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Hatfield Road/The Causeway
Potters Bar
Hertsmere
Hertfordshire
EN6 1HP
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 26268 01634
Denomination: Undefined
- Hatfield Road/The Causeway
- Description
- Gilted cross on hexagonal column, on 3 raised steps. The base has four flying buttress.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/& IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/OF POTTERS BAR, LITTLE/HEATH & BENTLEY HEATH/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/BY THEIR SACRIFICE WE LIVE/ ALSO/TO THE MEMORY OF/THE MEN WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN WORLD WAR II/ 1939-1945.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alford, E
Alford, F
Arnold, G
Arnold, W C
Ashley, A
Atterbury, T
Banks, W C
Bartlett, W
Botterman, L S
Brace, J D
See details for all 126 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 70
Served and returned: 0
Died: 70
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname,initials of forenames, decorations
Order of information: Surname, forename - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 56
Served and returned: 0
Died: 56
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Gilt - Column
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Memorial
- Listing information
- THE WAR MEMORIAL, ST JOHN'S CHURCHYARD
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- POTTERS BAR, LITTLE HEATH AND BENTLEY HEATH
- WMO ID: 121592
- Condition: Good [last updated on 03-10-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Memorial cleaned for 50th anniversary of D Day, 1994
- Costs
Site: Donated by Mr. Sanderson
Comments: Original site donated by A B Sanderson, chairman of the memorial committee, who lost a son in WW1. Voysey designed wallpaper for Sanderson.- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Barnet Press 8, 22 November, 6 December 1919 and 25 December 1920
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