The Joynt Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1923 and was the only Huron County War Memorial paid for entirely by private funds. Indeed, in 1922, Joynt had donated the site and moved the St. Helens community centre to the northeast corner of the crossroads where he intended to place the war memorial.
At his own expense, John Joynt spent the then-considerable sum of $5,000 on a monument to honour those from West Wawanosh who had served in the Great War.
Six more names were added after the Second World War.
After the demolition of the St. Helens United Church in 1978, a bell with the names of men who had fought and died in the Great War was placed beside the monument notes the township history book Reflections of West Wowanosh (1995).
