It honors the "Doughboy" and soldiers like him of World War I. The leftmost bronze plate beneath the Doughboy states as follows:

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
OUR COMRADES FROM CARTER COUNTY
WHO ENTERED THE SERVICE
OF THEIR COUNTRY.
THOSE WHO WERE WOUNDED AND
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE WORLD WAR OF 1917 - 1918

Sponsored by
Moore-Armstrong Post No. 138, American Legion
Willie C. Lewis Post No. 156, American Legion
Carter County Fiscal Court

Committee
Jerry Carroll, Co-Chairman
Richard Cox, Co-Chairman
Hubert Counts, Secretary
Joe Wheeler, Treasurer
James P. Carpenter, Owen Fielding
Bill Wollin, W. H. Roe
D. V. Kibbey

The 3 additional plates bear the names of the servicemen being honored