It is 11 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Municipality of Burwood.

Before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the Enfield area belonged to the Wangal people, a clan of the Eora tribe, which covered most of Sydney.

By the mid-1840s a small village had formed and the surrounding area supported vegetable gardening and a timber industry.

Enfield retained its separate identity until 1949 when the NSW state government decided to abolish a number of small local councils by amalgamating them with their neighbours.

The memorial is a rectangular sandstone pedestal with four marble plaque panels with the engraved names of the men and women who served during World War I.

Erection of the memorial was made possible by Mayor and Mayoress of Enfield, Mr and Mrs Ebenezer Ford.

[6] Between 1891 and 1948, Enfield was served by a tram line centred around a depot in present-day Croydon Park, in Tangarra Street.

The northern part of Coronation Reserve (the grassy green space that runs down the centre of Coronation Parade) lies on top of the original tram tracks that led, in a straight line, directly north to the intersection with Liverpool Road and the Boulevarde.

[citation needed] The arch displays four light bulbs in sockets which were originally the holders for the four electricity cables that ran along the old tram line.

[10] The church was designed by architect Clement Glancy in Inter-War Academic Classical style inspired by Église de la Madeleine, Paris.

St Thomas's Anglican Church, Coronation Parade was built in 1847 to a design by John Frederick Hilly in a Gothic Revival style and is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.

[21] Prior to the 1960s, there was a tramline which ran from Ashfield to Mortlake and Cabarita via Enfield and Burwood following the route of the modern day 464 & 466 bus services.