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The Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial was designed and created by local sculptors Laura and Mark Williams in 2002, commissioned by the City of Windsor and was unveiled before a crowd of 200 on July 11, 2006. This memorial replaced the deteriorating Lancaster bomber memorial which was located in Jackson Park. The bronze Lancaster memorial plaque honouring Veterans of the Second World War that was displayed in Jackson Park for 40 years was moved to Dieppe Gardens in 2005. It lists the names of 399 members of the Windsor area who died during the Second World War while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Major aircrafts from the Second World War - Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane were all hand sculpted, then molded and poured in bronze. The planes were mounted onto stainless steel poles installed by the City. They extend outward over the top of the concrete walls, offering the illusion of planes in flight.

Behind the planes mounted into the cove and set within the gardens are the ghosted images representing the spirit of past pilots, two male and a female. The female is from the air transport auxiliary that transported newly constructed planes to Britain from Canada, one male is a Hurricane pilot and the other is a Spitfire pilot. Laura and Mark created a reverse relief to capture the essence of the past. They hand sculpted the pilots, then created the molds to be poured in cement.

The Eternal flame was officially lit during the Essex Scottish Regiment reunion on June 17, 2000. The flame burns as a symbolic remembrance of those who died during their service.

This memorial to the local war dead was built and donated to the city of Windsor by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 255 and was dedicated on 2 November 1958.

A cenotaph dedication was held Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at the new Farrow Riverside Miracle Park. The Riverside Royal Canadian Legion Branch 255 hosted the dedication  bringing the cenotaph back to its original home. With the help of a $25,000 grant from the commemorative division of Veterans Affairs, the memorial was improved and relocated to the front of the park on Wyandotte Street East. The cenotaph was moved from its location in front of the Riverside Arena in 2011 when it was torn down. With the makeover of the former site, the opportunity arose for the cenotaph to move back to its original prominent spot. The cenotaph now sits on a platform at the entrance of the park with a black wall and the words “Lest We Forget” inscribed behind the memorial.

Local veterans, supporters and community members attended the dedication and remembrance ceremony which featured a reading of In Flanders Field, representatives from several local organizations, and music. Wreaths were laid by local officials and dignitaries from the navy, firefighters and youth representing the Cubs and Brownies, along with veterans from World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and currently serving military. This cenotaph did not have dates on its plaque, because the plaque is in honour of all who served.

The Shaar Hashomayim Monument was erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 352 and dedicated on 4 October 4, 1970, to the local Jewish war dead of the First and Second World Wars.

This plaque was dedicated on May 2, 2010, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy, to honour those from Windsor and Essex County who served in the Navy.

In 2006, members of the Windsor community raised money for a monument dedicated to reservists from the Windsor-based Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment who took part in the Raid on Dieppe. That monument was erected in Dieppe's Red Beach, France, where the regiment landed and dedicated on August 19, 2006. On January 4, 2010, City of Windsor officials approved construction of a duplicate monument to be built much closer to home in Dieppe Gardens.

The $60,000, 2.4-metre-high monument is made of black granite and features a cutout of a large maple leaf. It was designed and placed so that on August 19 at 1pm — the exact hour that the regiment stormed the beach — if the sun shines, it will cast a perfect shadow of that maple leaf on the stainless steel leaf installed on the ground below. Designer Rory O'Connor, a local art student, thought it would be great to use the sundial idea to tell about the time and retreat of these soldiers. The beach stones around this monument were collected from the beach at Dieppe.

The monument commemorates the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment's sacrifices in Dieppe, but also those that made it throughout northwest Europe until final victory in 1945. The engineering, construction and fundraising was undertaken by the auspices of The Essex and Kent Scottish by Delta Company, the civilian affiliate of the Regiment.

This memorial was dedicated in 1967 in memory of WO1 Pipe Major J. (Jock) Copland MBE of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment 1st Battalion. It was erected by the Warrant Officers and Chief Petty Officers Association of Essex County.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was a piper with the Seaforth Highlanders and  the Royal Engineers Territorial Force in Great Britain before coming to Galt, Ontario, in 1911. In Galt, he founded what became the Pipe Band of The Highland Light Infantry. In 1916, the 241st Canadian Scottish Borderers invited him to Windsor to form a pipe band and Copland went overseas with this unit. After the war, the band continued as the Border Cities Pipe Band. These Veteran pipers formed the core of the Essex Scottish Regiment pipe band when the Essex Fusiliers officially became a Highland Regiment in 1927.

Copland also instructed young pipers at the Walkerville High School Army Cadet Pipe Band, many followed him to Europe during the Second World War. Two of his sons, James and Robert, went with him as well. Jock was sixty when the war broke out in 1939, fifteen years too old to enlist. He had been with the Essex Scottish for over twenty years, had two sons in the band and served in the First World War. Determined to serve his regiment in this war as well, he lied about his age, claiming he was 45, so he would be accepted for service.

He became ill in Britain and was sent back to Windsor in January 1941. Jock, however, retained his ties with the Essex Scottish as Pipe Major for the reserve 2nd Battalion. After forty years of service with the Essex Scottish, he retired in December 1957. The regiment paid its final tribute to Jock with a parade on 7 March 1958. His son, Pipe Sergeant James Copland, succeeded his post, while his other son, Robert, served as the regiment's Drum Major. 

Jock died at the age of 86 on 29 April 1966. His sons, James and Robert, retired from the pipe band the following year, closing the half century the Copland family had spent as pipers for the Essex and Kent Scottish. Serving more than 60 years with the military, he was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire and held the Efficiency Medal and bars for long service.

The black granite Canadians in Vietnam Memorial remembers the 103 Canadians who were killed in Vietnam and seven missing in action. This memorial was donated to the city of Windsor by a small group of American Vietnam War veterans. Unveiled on 2 July 1995, it is dedicated to all Canadians who served in the American Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.

This memorial to the veterans and war dead of the First World War from Sandwich was erected by the Honourable James Baby Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) after the First World War. It was refurbished by the Windsor Veterans Memorial Services Committee in 1980 and, again, in 1993 by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 143 and the City of Windsor. The memorial was rededicated on 11 November 1993.

The Service Personnel Monument was dedicated on June 28, 1959, by the Windsor Chapter of the Remembrance Association Silver Cross Women of Canada and is dedicated to Windsor and Essex County war dead from the two World Wars and Korean War. More than 100 mothers and wives of the war dead attended the dedication. The nine foot monument was unveiled by Lieutenant Colonel F. K. Jasperson, DSO, ED, QC, the commanding officer of the Essex Scottish Regiment of Windsor during the Dieppe Raid. Three Army padres who took part in the commemoration ceremonies in Dieppe, France, during the Second World War officiated the service.

The base of the monument was replaced in 1962 by the Air Force Club in Windsor due to deterioration. The memorial also had to be refaced due to vandalism. This was financed by the Windsor Veterans Memorial Service Committee. The monument was re-dedicated in 1997.