The memorial is in the form of a marble obelisk on a square marble pedestal base on a marble platform on a paving slab. It is decorated by a relief sculpture of a crossed rifle and sword on its front and back imposed over a laurel wreath. On the front face of the pedestal is inscribed.
"To the Glory of God / And / In Memory of / (names, with regiments) / OLD SCHOLARS OF THE BOYS SCHOOL / CHRIST CHURCH, BARNET. / WHO FELL WHILE SERVING THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN OF 1899–1902 / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED / BY THEIR OLD SCHOOL-FELLOWS AND FRIENDS / JULY 1903. / "RENDER TO ALL THEIR DUES/ HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR".[2]
