[2] The marble and granite memorial was produced by Ipswich monumental masonry firm, F Williams and Company and honours the 221 local men who served during the First World War.

[3] Funds were raised by entertainments and public subscription to erect a war memorial, of which the foundations were laid by a voluntary "working bee".

Many memorials honour all who served from a locality, not just the dead, providing valuable evidence of community involvement in the war.

[1] Australian war memorials are also valuable evidence of imperial and national loyalties, at the time, not seen as conflicting; the skills of local stonemasons, metalworkers and architects; and of popular taste.

[1] Many of the First World War monuments have been updated to record local involvement in later conflicts, and some have fallen victim to unsympathetic re-location and repair.

It was the most popular choice of communities responsible for erecting the memorials, embodying the ANZAC Spirit and representing the qualities of the ideal Australian: loyalty, courage, youth, innocence and masculinity.

The digger was a phenomenon peculiar to Queensland, perhaps due to the fact that other states had followed Britain's lead and established Advisory Boards made up of architects and artists, prior to the erection of war memorials.

The digger statue was not highly regarded by artists and architects who were involved in the design of relatively few Queensland memorials.

[1] The Booval memorial was designed and executed by the well known and highly regarded Ipswich monumental masonry firm F Williams and Company.

The park is surrounded by a low fence consisting of white painted timber posts linked by a metal chain.

Also projecting from the plinth at the four corners are free standing columns of red granite with Ionic order bases and capitals.

This is surmounted by a marble digger statue, smaller than life-sized standing at ease with arms reversed and supported by a tree stump.

War Memorials are important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history as they are representative of a recurrent theme that involved most communities throughout the state.

[1] Unveiled in 1919, the memorial at Booval demonstrates the principal characteristics of a commemorative structure erected as an enduring record of a major historical event.

It also has special associations with monumental masonry firm F Williams and Company and Australia's best known female sculptor of the 1930s, Daphne Mayo.