Originally, this memorial was unveiled on 16 November 1984 by the Colonel Commandant of the Medical Branch, Major-General J.W.B. Barr, and dedicated to all those who served in the medical services of the Canadian military. The memorial was funded through donations from serving and retired personnel of the Canadian Forces Medical Service, the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force medical services.
On April 9, 2009, this memorial was rededicated to includes personnel of the Canadian Forces Health Services since the Canadian Forces Medical and Dental Service were united in 1995. Names of over 1394 fallen Health Services personnel are inscribed chronologically since the Boer War, as recorded in the Books of Remembrance in Ottawa. Consequently, the monument was modified; the front became the back, and the new front includes the inscription of the fallen soldiers on six plaques. Also added to the memorial were four granite walls. They represent multiple smaller individual bricks with plaques inscribed with names of fallen soldiers, including all the fallen from Afghanistan.
