The memorial stands on the north-west side of the Angel Hill facing Eastgate Street. It has a similar design to the cross which stood on Angel Hill in the medieval period. It is made of clipsham stone, mounted on three base stones, and is 4.5 metres high (15 foot). The architect was Mr Sidney Naish. The memorial was restored in 2001.

The memorial was erected on October 13 1921, in memory of the men of Bury St Edmunds who fell during the Great War. Thousands of the townspeople were present, including many relatives of those who died. The names of the men whose memory is commemorated by the cross are inscribed in a Book of Heroes, kept in the Cathedral.

On the east and west sides of the cross are the inscriptions:

'To the glorious dead. Let those who come after to see to it that they be not forgotten'.

'1914 -1919. In proud and thankful memory of the men of Bury St Edmunds who went to the Great War and laid down their lives in the case of freedom'.  

This memorial takes the form of a cross on an octagonal base.  The inscription on the memorial reads:

'To the honoured memory of those sailors who gave their lives for their country in the great war 1914 – 1918 and who lie buried in this cemetery'.

This is a memorial to the 193 Suffolk men who died in the Boer War. It stands on an island site in the centre of Cornhill on a low raised platform paved with stone setts and surrounded by iron railings with low square vase-shaped stone posts.

The memorial takes the form of a stone rectangular table tomb with small moulded pillars recessed at the angles and egg-and-dart ornament round the top. On the top a bare-headed solider sits in a defensive attitude, grasping a rifle, with his fallen helmet lying on the rocks below. The faces of the tomb are panelled.

The panels on the south, east and west of the tomb bear the names of those killed, and the north panel has the words vulneratus non victus above the arms of West Suffolk and an inscription:

‘This monument was erected by Suffolk people as a memorial to Suffolk soldiers who lost their lives in the South African war 1899-1902’.

This memorial was built and erected in 1920 by the people of Haverhill in memory of those who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 to 1919.

A Maltese cross, 15.4 metres high, stands in the centre of a circular plot, 16.4 metres in diameter. Around the base of the cross is a circular walk, six feet in width, with four approaches, 3 metres wide, joined to the walk by three steps. The cross is set on a moulded octagonal base, with three steps in hard York stone.

The memorial is made of flue axed grey Aberdeen granite. It has eight sunk and moulded panels, which are polished and bear sunk and leaded lettering. On the panels are recorded the names of the fallen and the inscription:

‘Faithful unto Death’.