The memorial was a gift from the Bromhead family, dedicated to Lt Col A. C. Bromhead, CBE, JP, a former Governor of the Star and Garter Home, and to his wife Mrs Margaret Bromhead, a former matron and governor at the home. It was erected to commemorate those servicemen who had died while resident at the Star and Garter home and who were not commemorated elsewhere. The memorial is in the form of a triptych set on a shaped stone base of three shallow steps which encompasses the whole memorial and between shaped buttress walls which extend to the front of the monument. The panels are set between stone piers with moulded cushion capitals, above which are a pair of parallel rows of timber lintels which extend beyond the piers at either end. The central panel has a scrolled head flanking a central finial in the form of a lighted torch.