The Vars Cenotaph consists of a stone cairn with two bronze plaques. To the right of the cenotaph is a brass inauguration plaque affixed to a pink granite rock. The cenotaph was unveiled on September 20, 1931, by Mrs. Robert Bonsall and Mrs. Silas Barclay, mothers of Ernest Bonsall and Matthew Barclay, whose names were on the scroll of honor on the bronze plaque. Sergeant G.E. Muggleton, a returned soldier of Vars, laid a wreath at the base of the cairn on behalf of the returned soldiers of the district. The memorial was erected by the Women's Institute.
A flat stone path in the form of a cross leading to the cenotaph is lined with 12 memorial pillars. Each pillar is topped by an oval-shaped black granite plaque dedicated to one of the war dead memorialized on the cenotaph:
Private C. Roy Brownlee
Sapper Charles Ward
Private Matthew Barkley
Sapper Robert McElroy
Lance Corporal Frank Lyle Cormack
Corporal William Stanley Hill
Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh
Private Wesley Adam Simpson
Private Ernest Lytton Bonsall
Private William Arthur Buckland
Private Frederick George Buckland
Lance Corporal Warren Edward Dunning
