In 1950, a year after the Carlington Reservoir officially opened, a sundial was placed on a circle of flagstones in the center of the reservoir and two bronze plaques were attached to the hexagonal base. The City had intended to create a park with symmetrical pathways on top of the reservoir. The renaming of Carlington Heights as Memorial Heights in tribute to Second World War Veterans never stuck.
At some point, the memorial was moved to the north-west side of the Richmond Road-Roosevelt Avenue intersection. Its remains were found in 1952 in a city owned yard. The city rebuilt the monument at Carlington Heights with the remnants of the old memorial and replaced the commemorative plaque which had disappeared.
By 1984, vandalism took its toll on the memorial, so Charley Timms and a dozen other members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 480 looked into relocating the memorial. Regional Council gave permission for the vandalized monument on Carlington Heights to be dismantled and the plaque was moved to the Branch 480 building.
