Hemel Hempstead War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 2016. War memorial.
Hemel Hempstead War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- stranded-storey-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 2016
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Hemel Hempstead War Memorial, Corner of St John's Road and Station Road, Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, HP1 1JY
- OS grid reference
- TL 052 061
- Coordinates
- 51.74454, -0.47728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hemel Hempstead War Memorial is a First World War memorial, with later additions for subsequent conflicts, erected in 1921. It commemorates the names of those who fell in the Second World War, the Malayan Emergency, the Aden Emergency, the Falklands War, and the Afghanistan conflict.
The memorial is made of carved limestone and is located on a green at the corner of St John’s Road and Station Road, next to the churchyard of the Church of St John the Evangelist. It features a St Chad’s cross on the capital of an octagonal column, which has a moulded and stepped base. This column is supported by a square pedestal, a low chamfered plinth, and a two-tier stepped base.
An inscription in black lettering runs around the four faces of the base of the column, stating "SACRIFICE 1914-1919, HONOUR, VALOUR, VICTORY." The pedestal below has limestone tablets listing the names of 356 local residents who died during the First World War. The plinth is inscribed "1939 – 1945" on each side and carries four tablets with the names of 151 residents who died in the Second World War, as well as four additional tablets inscribed with "MALAYA 1951-1953 NAMES," "ADEN 1965 NAME," "SOUTH ATLANTIC 1982 NAMES," and "AFGHANISTAN 2001- NAMES" and "AFGHANISTAN 2001 NAME." This includes two residents who lost their lives during the Malayan Emergency, one during the Aden Emergency, two during the Falklands War, and three during the war in Afghanistan.
Local climate
Hemel Hempstead War Memorial sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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