Halse War Memorial

A First World War memorial, dating from 1918; altered after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: local stone with a bronze plaque.

DESCRIPTION: the memorial takes the form of a plain Latin cross with chamfered arms and shaft, on a base of three roughly-hewn octagonal stone steps, all set on a wider, octagonal platform with moulded edges. Let into the base is an angled stone to which is affixed a bronze plaque, inscribed: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF LIEUT/ NEVILLE MONTGOMERY, 29TH BATTALION CANADIAN INFANTRY, YOUNGER / SON OF THE RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, / WHO FELL IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF LENS AUG 21 1917 / AND THE FOLLOWING FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR / followed by the names of the eight men lost during the First World War; / AND OF THE FOLLOWING FROM THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945/ followed by the names of the five men who had died during that conflict.

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, 15 December 2016.