The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of 15 instances of his War Cross and the only one commissioned by a regiment.

[1][2] The memorial is a comparatively small version of the War Cross, set into the church wall of Leeds Minster and facing out onto Kirkgate.

Because of the difference in level between the churchyard and the street, the memorial incorporates a stone bench which doubles as a platform for wreaths.

At the height of the wall, the cross is surrounded on three sides by decorative iron railings with arrowhead finials.

[1] The memorial was unveiled on Remembrance Sunday, 13 November 1921, by Captain George Sanders, an officer of the Leeds Rifles who had earned a Victoria Cross in the war.