[2] It was designed and produced by monumental masonry firm A L Petrie of Toowong, Brisbane and honours the 51 local fallen of the First World War.

A Post Office opened at Mitchell Downs in 1865 with mail services commencing for the surrounding district at this time.

The word "cenotaph", commonly applied to war memorials at the time, literally means "empty tomb".

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.

[2] The First World War Memorial is located in a park setting and is surrounded by cast iron posts with decorative finials.

The plates bear an inscription and the cut and (originally) gilded names of the 51 local who served from the First World War.

[1] Mitchell War Memorial was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.

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.

The monuments manifest a unique documentary record and are demonstrative of popular taste in the inter-war period.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.