The memorial was paid for mainly by the subscriptions of London and North Western Railway staff, to commemorate the 3,719 LNWR employees who fell in the First World War. It is an obelisk above a tall pedestal standing on a circular stepped base. Projecting buttresses on each corner support over life size figures representing a sailor, infantryman, airman and gunner. These have heads bowed and arms reversed. There is a raised cross with overlapping bronze wreath on each face, and a First World War tablet in marble and two Second World War tablets in granite. The memorial's site was originally in the centre of Euston Square on the approach road to the station and on an axis with the Euston Arch prior to the latter's demolition in the 1960s. The area has since been redeveloped and the memorial now sits in front of a modern office building.