The monument represents in relief a soldier being killed on the battlefield. It was built in honor of all those who died in the wars for the freedom of the homeland.

It was created to commemorate the heroic struggles and to replace the older marble statue that was inaugurated in 1940, shortly before the start of the Second World War. Unfortunately, that statue was destroyed and thrown into the sea by the Bulgarian army after its invasion of Thrace. The only thing that survived from the old monument is the soldier's head, which many years after its discovery at sea, in the port of Porto Lagos, was placed near the original location of the monument, next to the church of God's Wisdom.