Keston War Memorial

The Keston War Memorial, located on the western edge of Keston Common, is a Grade II listed structure made of Portland stone with bronze decorations and plaques. The memorial features a 3.9-meter high stylized Latin cross with a broad face and supporting buttresses on all four sides, standing on a low square base.

The front face displays a bronze laurel wreath and two bronze plaques beneath it. The top plaque is inscribed with ‘TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914-1919’, listing the names of 30 fallen soldiers, followed by the phrase ‘THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’. A smaller plaque below commemorates those lost in the Second World War with the inscription ‘IN MEMORIAM 1939-1945’, listing the names of nine servicemen and 14 local civilians who died during that conflict.

Additionally, at the base of one of the buttresses, a small metal plaque reads ‘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’.