A stylized Egyptian obelisk was ordered by the congregation of the Brant-Argyle Presbyterian Church, to commemorate the local men who were killed in the First World War. The monument is made of white marble, in three pieces, and was shipped to Argyle via the Canadian Northern Railway. The local fathers (several who had lost sons) gathered at the railway station and used heavy wagons/horses to haul the three pieces 1/2 mile north to the church yard. The men then assembled the pieces on site.

The cenotaph lists the names of those who were killed in the First World War, has two crossed rifles carved near the top, and a palm frond surrounded by the dates 1914 1918 near the bottom.

At the end of the Second World War, the community added three names of those local men who were killed in that war.