Chelmsford Chronicle Friday 19 March 1920 reported: 'HATFIELD HEATH. A War Memorial erected on Hatfield Heath was unveiled on Sunday by Lt-Col. Broke, R.E., Gladwyns. The memorial takes the form of a cross of Doric design, 15ft. high, on a base 7ft. square of Portland stone. The religious part of the service was shared by the Rev. E. A. Du Cane, vicar, and the Rev. R.C. Jude, Congregational'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000516/19200319/113/0008

Herts and Essex Observer Saturday 15/11/1947 reported: 'At Hatfield Heath, the names of those who lost their lives in the 1939-45 war, which have been added to the war memorial, were unveiled by Mr. R. Gunn (a member of the British Legion) on Remembrance Sunday. Before the ceremony contingents of the local British Legion, British Legion Women's Section, Scouts, Girl Guides and Brownies paraded on the Heath and headed by Hatfield Heath Brass Band, marched to a well attended service at the Congregational Church. The Legion standards were received by the Rev. P. J. Lawton (Congregational minister), and the lesson was read by Captain E. N. Griffith (president of Hatfield Heath British Legion). The address was given by the Rev. B. J. B. Watson (Congregational minister at White Roding), and the Rev. F. B. Horsey (vicar of Hatfield Heath), and the Rev. H. B. Reiss (rector of Little Hallingbury) were also present. The parade afterwards reassembled and marched to the memorial where,, before the unveiling, Mr. R. Dix read the names inscribed upon it. After prayers. the Last Post and Reveille were sounded and wreaths were laid'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003122/19471115/112/0006

The War Memorials Trust's record of this memorial can be found at https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/69417/ (Details of the grant made in 2004 can be found at http://www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=646 ).

Historic England's record of its Grade II listing of the memorial on 27/9/2005 can be found at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1392917 Their reason for that listing was recorded as: 'War memorial erected in 1920. Limestone. Scupltor [sic] unknown. A splayed base, square in plan, supporting an undecorated celtic cross with moulded shaft on a stepped plinth. An inscription reads 'To the memory of our men who fell in the Great War 1914-1919' on the east side of the plinth. The inscised [sic] inscriptions and rolls of honour for the First World War are on the remaining three faces of the plinth with names of those who died during the Second World War inscribed on the western face of the base. The Memorial is unaltered and a fine example of a First World War memorial'.

STAND TO! 21/No 97 May 2013 Published:WESTERN FRONT ASSOCIATION In article pp 19-23: "Lest We Forget" The Mis-remembered Men of Two Essex Villages by John Sly.

"Lest We Forget: The First World War Memorials of Uttlesford District", published by Recorders of Uttlesford History, 2014; ISBN 978-1-873669-14-3, page 60