This cross was brought to Canada from the battlefields near Arras, France, where it had been erected to honour the sacrifices of the 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force who fell in the fall of 1918 during the final stage of the Second Battle of Arras, the Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line, and Breaking of the Hindenburg Line.
In March of 1935, it was agreed that a wooden cross should be erected in front of the First Presbyterian Church in memory of the members of the 16th Battalion who had been killed in the First World War. Annie Kay, wife of 16th Battalion Regimental Sergeant Major James Kay, unveiled the cross on May 8, 1935. Regimental Sergeant Major James Kay, was one of the approximately 250 members of the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada, a militia regiment formed in Winnipeg in 1910, who joined the 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) when it was formed for overseas service in 1914. The cross was first placed on the grounds of the church and is now kept in the Cameron Chapel.
Battle of Arras, Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line, and Breaking of the Hindenburg Line are the long/formal battle honours for the fighting that occurred during the period named on the memorial inscription.