The memorial honors veterans connected with Margate City Post 397, including Lt. David Rogers of the 101st Airborne Division in World War II; Mortimer Lewis, 3rd, Francis P. Boyle, Samuel D. Strain, Joseph F. Martin, Arthur D. Wilson, and Rudolph J. Farley of Margate American Legion Post 397 who served in World War II; 1st Lt. Arthur J. Abramoff of the United States Air Force, killed in action on January 20, 1967, in Vietnam; and Theodore J. Haring, killed in action on October 9, 1918, in World War I.