Hales and Heckingham War Memorial

The Hales and Heckingham War Memorial is a First World War memorial, erected around 1920. After being damaged in a traffic accident in 1999, it was re-erected and re-dedicated in 2002, with additions for the Second World War.

Constructed from granite, the memorial features a Celtic cross located on a small traffic island at the crossroads of School Lane and Green Lane with Yarmouth Road in the village of Hales. It consists of a part polished and part roughly-hewn plinth that stands on a shallow base added in 2002. A tall shaft rises from the plinth, tapering in rectangular section to a Celtic wheel-head cross, which displays the raised HIS Christogram in Gothic lettering.

The dedicatory inscription on the polished west face of the plinth reads: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN/ UNDYING REMEMBRANCE OF THESE MEN / OF HALES AND HECKINGHAM / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR / THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / MAY THEY REST IN PEACE/ HECKINGHAM / [NAMES]." The inscription on the east face of the plinth states: "HALES / [NAMES] / 'PASS FRIEND. ALL'S WELL'." The names of the fallen are inscribed on the side of the plinth facing their respective village, while the corresponding sides of the modern base bear the names of those who died during the Second World War.