The memorial stands at the entrance to Auckland (Waikumete) Cemetery which is situated at the junction of Great North Road and Glenview Road, Glen Eden, on the western outskirts of Auckland. It commemorates 56 service people from the province who lost their lives in and around New Zealand during the two World Wars and who have no known grave. Of the 56 commemorations, 40 are service people of the 1914-1918 War who are buried at sea and have no known grave.

The memorial is in the form of a six foot concrete cube raised two feet above the ground and divided by a diagonal section to which the name panels are affixed. It bears the following inscription:

1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
ON THESE PANELS ARE THE NAMES OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES WHO ENLISTED IN THIS DISTRICT WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY IN AND AROUND NEW ZEALAND OR EN ROUTE TO OVERSEAS SERVICE AND TO WHOM THE FORTUNES OF WAR DENIED A KNOWN AND HONOURED GRAVE.

World War 1:
	AUWHA, KING
	BOWELL, FREDERICK THOMAS ARTHUR
	CAMPBELL, ANGUS JOHN
	CAMPBELL, FRASER
	CAMPBELL, MALCOLM HUGH
	CARROLL, TERENCE
	CLARK, THOMAS
	CLARKE, HENRY WILFRED
	COTTLE, JOHN WILLIAM
	CRAIG, DOUGLAS
	EMMETT, JAMES DIXON
	GATHERCOLE, CHARLES HENRY
	GIBSON, FREDERICK MOOR
	GILES, EDWARD HARLE
	GRANT, ALFRED PERCY
	GREEN, LEONARD HAROLD
	HODDLE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
	HOWARD, GEORGE STANLEY
	JAMES, HARRY ALEXANDER
	JONES, STEWART THOMAS
	KOKIRI, TANGO
	LUXFORD, HAROLD GORDON
	MACKAY, DUNCAN GORDON
	MAGNUSSON, JAMES WERNER
	McCLEARY, HARRY
	McLEAN, ALEXANDER ARCHIBALD
	McMILLAN, LLEWELYN JOHN
	MERRICK, JOHN JOSEPH
	MOULD, GEORGE
	NOTLEY, JONATHAN THOMAS
	PATERSON, NORMAN GILMORE
	RAMEKA, PERCY
	SHARP, IVAN VICTOR
	SHEPHERD, ERNEST KARL
	SMITH, EDGAR HEATON
	STANLEY, THOMAS JAMES
	TE MOANANUI, MIKAERA
	VICKERMAN, FRANCIS ARTHUR
	WILLIAMS, ALBERT ANDREW
	WILSON, CHARLES
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