The Recorders of Uttlesford History's website gives a detailed explanation of the origins of the memorial, the first paragraph of which reads: 'Prior to November 2016 the village of Lindsell had no form of war memorial and no reference to men from the village who died in the Great War other than a scruffy piece of paper pinned to the church notice board containing a list of six names. It is not known why there had never been a proper memorial before. The Centenary of the start of WW1 and the publication by the Recorders of Uttlesford History of their book “Lest we forget” in November 2014 inspired the village to do something about it. The decision was taken that a suitable memorial should be placed inside the village church. As happened all those years ago, after the end of the First World War, when committees were formed in towns and villages around the country to discuss what form a memorial should take and how to raise money to build and erect it, so too all these years later, a small committee was formed in Lindsell. This group were given the mandate to research, to design a memorial, to negotiate with the church authorities and to raise money for the project'. The explanation then gives details of how the research was undertaken etc, and concludes: 'Eventually a suitable sign maker was found and commissioned to make the plaque measuring 90cm x 50cm, the cost was paid from money raised from public subscription. Finally on Sunday 13th November 2016 the plaque was unveiled by the sister of Harry J. Bambridge (Mrs Betty Moore) at the annual Remembrance Sunday Service'. https://www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk/lindsell/RUH website - Lindsell war memorial.pdf

The War Memorials Trust's record of the memorial can be found at https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/246971/