The memorial marks the deaths of local individuals who died fighting in World War I and World War II.
It was dedicated in June 1920 by Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Chichester in the aftermath of the First World War.
A a further inscription was later added to mark the Second World War.
The memorial is a tall thin Portland stone octagonal pillar topped by a sculpture of a pelican vulning herself, a heraldic and Christian symbol of sacrifice.
[4] No names are recorded on the memorial; this was a deliberate decision to represent the many local people wounded but not killed in the war.