Keston War Memorial

MATERIALS: Portland stone with bronze decoration and plaques.

DESCRIPTION: situated on the western edge of Keston Common, the memorial takes the form of a 3.9m high stylised Latin cross, with a broad face and supporting buttresses on all four sides. It stands on a low square base. The front face bears a bronze laurel wreath with two bronze plaques below. The top plaque bears the inscription ‘TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914-1919’ with the names of the 30 fallen below, followed by ‘THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’. A smaller plaque below is inscribed ‘IN MEMORIAM 1939-1945’ and bears the names of the nine servicemen and 14 local civilians killed during the Second World War.

At the base of the buttress a small metal plaque bears the inscription ‘ALSO REMEMBERED/ WITH GRATEFUL APPRECIATION/ THOSE WHO, SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR,/ HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN CONFLICTS/ AND PEACE-KEEPING MISSIONS/ THROUGHOUT THE WORLD’.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 9 February 2017.