Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Sheffield
- Town
- Sheffield
- County
- South Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 5th December 1920
Attended by: Alderman W.F. Wardley (Lord Mayor of Sheffield) performed the unveiling; attendees included Police and Fire officers and relatives of the deceased - Dedicated
Date: 5th December 1920
Attended by: The Bishop of Sheffield performed the dedication - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 27977
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Current location
The Parker transept
St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral
Church Street
Sheffield
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2EW
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 35391 87493
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Oblong mottled brown and cream marble tablet, with plain raised outer border and incised and painted lettering. The recessed inner panel has a coloured mosaic surround, and a relief-carved policeman's helmet at top centre between two coloured mosaic floral panels.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN UNDYING MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS/ OF THE SHEFFIELD CITY POLICE FORCE AND FIRE BRIGADE WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES WHILST SERVING WITH HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (Names)/ "WHEN DUTY CALLS, WHERE'ER SHE POINTS THE WAY/ THE SONS OF HONOUR HASTEN AND OBEY"/ THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Baines, J
Barber, G
Bark, F
Batty, W
Booker, T
Clay, H
Crapper, C
Crich, S
Cullimore, A S
Gautier, F
See details for all 24 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 24
Served and returned: 0
Died: 24
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, initials, surname, Regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Brown
- Tablet
- 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 - Reference
- Sheffield Daily Telegraph 6/12/1920 (page 4) reported the unveiling
- War Memorials Trust (warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249474/ )
- "The Green Howards' Gazette" page 136
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