Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Watford
- Town
- Watford
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- MR E WOODFIELD (Builder)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 6 March 1921
Attended by: Rev D F Carey DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 19608
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Current location
Junction of Elfrida Rd and Lammas Rd
St James Church
Elfrida Rd
Watford
Watford
Hertfordshire
W18 0BA
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 11227 95667
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Stone Cross on a three-stepped square base
- Inscription
- 1914-1916 (Names)/ 1916-1917 (Names)/1917-1918 (Names)/AND FOUR OTHER MEN OF WATFORD FIELDS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD/ 1918-1919 (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Archer, J T
Atkins, A E
Atkins, H
Ayers, E
Baldwin, W C
Barr, H C
Batchelor, G
Batchelor, H W
Batchelor, J B
Brackley, P W
See details for all 77 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 86
Served and returned: 0
Died: 86
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,year died,regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 3600MM
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Cross
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Watford Fields War Memorial
- WMO ID: 135048
- Condition: Good [last updated on 29-10-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- By 1999 some of the names were becoming illegible, so some time between then and c2002 four new panels were added. Four of the names were unidentifiable, hence the additional inscription.
- Costs
Site: £250
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Watford Observer 8 Nov. 2002; 27 May 2011
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