Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- City Of Edinburgh
- Town
- Leith, Edinburgh
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 03 June 1920
Attended by: Provost Lindsay performed the unveiling - Dedicated
Date: 03 June 1920
Attended by: Reverend William Swan of South Leith Parish Church performed the dedication - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 87441
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Current location
35-41
Leith Police Station
Queen Charlotte Street
Leith
Edinburgh
City Of Edinburgh
Lothian
EH6 7EY
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 27249 76233
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rectangular Brass Plaque, with the Leith Burgh Police coat of arms at top centre and a stylised double line border, fixed to a black backboard.
- Inscription
- 1914 1918/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND TO THE MEMORY OF/ COMRADES OF THIS FORCE WHO DIED/ FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND IN THE CAUSE OF/ HONOUR AND FREEDOM/ They were/ (names)/ LEITH BURGH POLICE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bruce, James M
Cameron, Angus
Clapperton, George
Duncan, David
Eunson, Francis S
Inglis, Walter
Laing, Alexander
Laing, William R
Latto, Thomas B
Macleod, Alexander
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname
Order of information: Listed in two columns, neither alphabetically by surname nor chronologically by date of death.
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Plaque
- Condition
- History
- (N.B. Leith Burgh Police was amalgamated into the City of Edinburgh Police in 1920, which merged into Lothian and Border Police in 1975 and finally became part of Police Scotland in 2013. It therefore had no WW2 memorial).
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Police Scotland
- Reference
- The Scotsman 4/6/1920 (page 4) : "Provost Lindsay yesterday unveiled in the Muster room at Leith Police Office a tablet to commemorate the men of that force who gave their lives for their country... Provost Lindsay, in the course of his address, stated that 61 men went from the force into H.M. fighting services, and 18 of these had made the supreme sacrifice." www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19200604/148/0004 (N.B. The Leith Burgh Police Roll of Honour actually listed the names of 62 officers from that Force who enlisted, -see www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/92266 ).
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=6045&mforum=warmemscot
- Biographical details of those named on the plaque can be found at www.scottishpolicemedals.co.uk/scottish-police-force-galleries-men-equipment-insignia/leith-burgh-police-war-memorial-and-memorial-roll-transcription/?fbclid=IwAR0xVWo_7B8Ievp3fFXi26hy73pBDF2bUdj_zS4pPNi5UBpit8K8N6I0SG8
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