Chipping Barnet war memorial Sept 2016 02

The Chipping Barnet War Memorial is located immediately west of St John the Baptist Church in Wood Street,

Chipping Barnet Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north-northwest of Chari ...

, Greater London. It commemorates the men of the district who died in the first and second World Wars and is in the form of an octagonal base below a pedestal surmounted by a tapering column with a Celtic cross head. The cross is intersected by a corona in a flattened octagonal section. It was unveiled by Lord Byng of Vimy in April 1921. Byng was born at nearby

Wrotham Park Wrotham Park (pronounced , ) is a neo-Palladian English country house in the parish of South Mimms, Hertfordshire. It lies south of the town of Potters Bar, from Hyde Park Corner in central London. The house was designed by Isaac Ware in 17 ...

in Hertfordshire.The stories of our fallen heroes.
Percy Reboul & John Heathfield, times-series.co.uk, 5 November 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2016.

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* *http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/barnet-war-memorial *https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/207820 World War I memorials in England Chipping Barnet World War II memorials in England Buildings and structures completed in 1921 1921 in London Military memorials in London Wood Street, Chipping Barnet {{London-struct-stub