Gerald Curtis: The Story of the Sampfords (1981) Pub. by Gerald Curtis, Howes, Great Sampford. Pg.257.

Lest We Forget: The First World War Memorials of Uttlesford District, published 2014 by the Recorders of Uttlesford History, ISBN 978-1-873669-14-3 Pages 94 and 95 have a photograph of the memorial, and biological data re the 16 casualties named on the memorial.

Recorders of Uttlesford History website states of the WW1 memorials of Great and Little Sampford that: 'It was two denuded villages that greeted the 20th century.Of 285 houses in the Sampfords in 1851, only 184 were inhabited seventy years later. On the other hand, despite general depression agricultural labourers were doing well. So many had left for employment in the cities that those who were left could name their wage, and many were able to take up small farms as a result. However 1914 bought war on an unprecedented scale. The two parishes record 26 names on their war memorials and many more must have served. Sidney Gowlett returned home with a Distinguished Conduct Medal and Walter Schwier with the Military Cross, the latter having taken part in a cavalry charge in 1917. The schoolmaster Harold Blayney, feared and respected in equal parts by the pupils he thrashed, inspired similar fear in recruits before making his way to Palestine in time to witness the collapse of the Turkish army, while brothers Jim and Bill Gray tired of waiting to be liberated from POW camp whilst Germany crumbled round them and simply made their own way home'. http://www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk/greatsampford/greatsampford.html