The marble cenotaph was erected by the Lucknow Women's Institute, as a memorial to the Lucknow men who fell in the Great War, or died as a result of the war experience. It was unveiled on Armistice Day 1929 minus the figure, which wasn't completed until the following April. A crowd of over 300 were in attendance.
The Lucknow Women's Institute decided that the names inscribed on the monument should only be of those men whose death was due to incidents of the war service and whose family home was in Lucknow at the time of their enlistment or soon after.
The marble figure was sculpted in Italy, at the same place and time as the monument in Teeswater, and erected on a shaft on top of the base in April 1930. The figure is six feet tall, which gives the cenotaph an overall height of 14 feet and six inches from the sub-base. The cost of the monument and lighting was $2,200.
