Finchley War Memorial
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Finchley War Memorial (IWM Ref:10972) is located in Ballards Lane,
The large granite cross at Finchley War Memorial is inside a maintained fenced enclosure, the gates have the words St Kildas on them named after the Scottish archipelago, St Kilda. The bronze sculptured panel contains a carved relief with the figures of three servicemen: a soldier in full trench kit, with a steel helmet, cape and fixed bayonet flanked by the busts of a sailor and an airman.
There is an inscription on the top which reads above the soldier, which says “Victory won by Sacrifice” and below the soldier “At the Going down of the Sun and in the Morning we will Remember them.” There is a flagpole behind the stone cross. (OS Grid Ref: TQ 261 921) On either side of the memorial, there are two memorial plaques: the Finchley Metropolitan Tramway War Memorial (IWM Ref 64400) and the Hendon Garage War Memorial (IWM Ref 64399) that were relocated, after the buildings where they were hanging were demolished.
In grateful Memory of Men of Finchley who By service on Land Sea And in the Air gave their Lives for their Country. 1914 - 1919 1939 – 1945
No names are inscribed on the main memorial.
The memorial remembers those servicemen and women up to the present day who have died in conflict and also their loved ones, family and friends who they left behind. A service of remembrance occurs every year on
A separate and original memorial in the form of a bronze plaque is located at Finchley Memorial Hospital. It commemorates the local men who died during World War I.[1]
References
- ^ "Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group - Great War Memorial re-instated in Finchley". Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
External links
- Media related to Finchley War Memorial at Wikimedia Commons
- Finchley Roll of Honour
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