The Cookstown Cenotaph located in Cookstown Veterans Memorial Park, was dedicated in 1935. It was designed and constructed by Alfred Davis. The First World War plaque located on the monument was a gift from the Cookstown Women's Institute and was originally unveiled on April 11, 1921, in a bank in Cookstown.
Another plaque with the names of those lost in the Second World War and a stone for the Korean War have been added to the memorial. A German Minenwarfer (trench mortar), captured by the 102 Battalion on August 8, 1918, at the Battle of Amiens. sits in the garden in front of the memorial.
The Cookstown Cenotaph was renovated in 2019/2020. The First World War artillery piece that sat on a concrete pedestal in front of the monument was removed for restoration by an Innisfil company, and the cenotaph itself is slated for repairs and the addition of a new plaque. Alliston Legion Branch 171 presented a cheque for $1,600 in support of the restoration project undertaken by the Town of Innisfil.
