The Memorial Tablet was cast in the early 1920s by Victoria High School's art teacher Earl (Bunny) Clarke and unveiled by Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Walter C. Nichol on November 11, 1925. Funds were raised by staff, students, alumni and citizens.
Clarke selected a female figure to demonstrate motherhood and sisterhood. The woman symbolizes grief. She holds a spray of flowers in her right hand and supports a shield with her left hand. Miss Margaret Hallam, the school's secretary, was the model used by Clarke for the right arm and hand.
The names of three teachers and 82 students who laid down their lives for their country in the First World War are engraved on the shield. The war was a time for patriotic heroism and the school took pride in its 11 military crosses and seven military medals.
