This memorial was unveiled in November 1924. It is made from British Columbia grey granite with a life-sized statue of a Canadian soldier in full service kit, standing at ease with his hands over the muzzle of his Lee-Enfield rifle made from Italian white marble. The statue was sculpted in Italy. The memorial is sixteen feet tall and weighs approximately twelve tons. Weyburn Monument Works supplied the completed memorial.
In 1920 the Canadian William A. Rogers Limited Company published a catalogue of memorial designs including the overlife-sized statue of a pensive infantryman, leaning on his rifle, with his chin resting on his hand. According to the catalogue, Rogers was at that time the only bronze foundry in Canada that had successfully made large casts like this, the figure is a cast from a model by a St. Boniface sculptor named Nicolas Pirroton.
