From The Hindu, March 7, 1925: Burma war memorial

Rangoon, March 5: H.E. the Governor unveiled the Burma War Memorial this evening in the presence of an influential gathering. The memorial is in the form of an obelisk about fifty feet high standing in the centre of a circular platform 60 feet in diameter. Near the top of the obelisk is a bronze band with a wreath facing the roadway and at its messine base are four bronze inscription plates facing the east being inscribed: “For the glorious dead 1914-18” while others give in English, Burmese and Hindi a list of the Units which left Burma on war service. The design is simple and the monument military in its character with no religious emblems.