[1] The Gatton Weeping Mothers War Memorial was designed and produced by well known and highly regarded Ipswich mason Frank Williams.

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.

New sandstone slabs with bronze plates to the front faces are located on either side of the path leading to the monuments.

The floor, from which a central square pillar rises, is laid with black and white marble tiles in a chequerboard pattern.

Her chin rests on her right hand and she holds a scroll which bears the leaded inscription "Their names liveth forevermore".

[1] Weeping Mother 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.

They provide evidence of an era of widespread Australian patriotism and nationalism, particularly during and following the First World War[1] The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.

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

[1] The memorial at Gatton demonstrates the principal characteristics of a commemorative structure erected as an enduring record of a major historical event.

[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.