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The World War Two Avenue of Remembrance at Promenade Park, beginning close to the boating lake, consists of 86 Horse Chestnut trees that were planted in 1987 to commemorate local people who died serving their country during World War Two.
Their names are listed in full on the interpretation board (and online here), and are mainly members of the Armed Forces, but also include some civilians, such as Rev Alfred Sadd, a Maldon vicar who was working in a school in the Gilbert Islands, off Papua New Guinea, and was killed when Japanese forces occupied the island. Also listed are the eight civilians killed when 14 homes were destroyed in a bombing raid that hit Spital Road, Fambridge Road and Washington Road in 1943 (you can read more about that at Roll of Honour).
