War memorial at Lyndhurst, New Forest

The war memorial at Lyndhurst in the New Forest was unveiled on 10 April 1921 and is said to be based on a design concept by Alice Hargreaves, who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland and whose two sons are commemorated on the memorial. Additional names were added after the Second World War and the Falklands conflict.

Constructed from Cornish granite, the memorial features a cairn made of granite boulders of varying sizes, cemented together to form a large, irregularly coursed splayed base. On this base rests a roughly finished tapering shaft topped by a Celtic cross. The memorial is surrounded by iron railings, with an additional chain-link fence supported by rough-hewn uprights at each corner.

The principal west face of the memorial faces the Lyndhurst Park Hotel. The dates 1914-1918 are incised at the top of the cairn, below which is a plaque set vertically into the face of the cairn that lists the 69 names of the fallen from the First World War, with the inscription 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE' beneath it. A second plaque, set horizontally at the base of the first, records 21 names of the Second World War dead and one from the Falklands conflict. The rear face of the cairn bears the inscription 'TO THE UNCONQUERED PEACE'.