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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Shrewsbury And Atcham
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 4 August 1920
Attended by: Archdeacon Maude performed the unveiling
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 14004
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Current location
Shrewsbury Police Station
Clive Road (Monkmoor)
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
SY2 5RW
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 51088 13455
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Old Police Station
Swan Hill
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Old Police Station
- Description
- An oak board surmounted by the Shropshire Constabulary crest and the word 'Victory'.
- Inscription
- VICTORY/ (NAMES)/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE OFFICERS OF THE/ SHROPSHIRE CONSTABULARY/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abbots, J
Broadhurst, G
Cadman, J
Derriman, G L
Jones, W W
Meredith, C
Richards, C
Stanley, H H
Wynne, R T
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 9
Served and returned: 0
Died: 9
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Initials, surname, additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- West Mercia Police
- Reference
- 'Shropshire Constabulary: War Memorial Unveiled at Shrewsbury', Shrewsbury Chronicle, 6 August 1920, p. 4.
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/237451/
- Birmingham Daily Gazette, 5/8/1920, page 3, reported the unveiling: "POLICE WAR MEMORIAL. AN UNVEILING CEREMONY AT SHREWSBURY. A memorial tablet to officers and men of Shropshire County Constabulary who fell in the Great War was unveiled at headquarters, Shrewsbury, yesterday by Archdeacon Maude, who was supported by Lord Harleck Sir Offley Wakeman, and Major Bocke, chief constable, The names inscribed included that of the late chief constable. Captain G. L. Derriman, of the Grenadier Guards, who, although seriously wounded in the South African war, insisted upon going to the front when his own regiment had been badly cut up". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000669/19200805/070/0003#
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