Cheshire Constabulary - WW1 and WW2

• In the foyer
  Cheshire Constabulary HQ
  Castle Esplanade
  Nuns Road
  Chester
  Chester
  Cheshire
  CH1 2PP
  England
  
  OS Grid Ref: SJ 400 660
  Denomination: Undefined
• 142
  Cheshire Constabulary
  Foregate Street
  Chester
  Chester
  Cheshire
  CH1 1JG
  England
  
  OS Grid Ref: SJ 41166 66450
  Denomination: Undefined
• Show More (1)

• First World War (1914-1918)
  Total names on memorial: 21
  Served and returned: 0
  Died: 21
  Exact count: yes
  Information shown: Forenames, surname
  Order of information: Alphabetical by surname
• Second World War (1939-1945)
  Total names on memorial: 26
  Served and returned: 0
  Died: 26
  Exact count: yes
  Information shown: Forename, surname
  Order of information: Alphabetical by surname

• Board
  Measurements: Undefined
  Materials: Wood - Oak

• 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
• 

• If you know the condition of this memorial, please help by adding details
• 

Comments: The cost was raised by donations from serving officers, Police pensioners and widows. The money raised also paid for a photograph of the memorial to be sent to Police pensioners and widows.
Memorial: £280

• Crewe Chronicle 23/7/1960 (page 15) reported that the memorial has been installed at the County Police Headquarters. The report stated that: "The decision to erect the board was not made until 1954, when it was decided that it should cover not only the County Force but the Forces of Chester City, Macclesfield, Hyde, Stalybridge and Congleton." (Mr Ayres, who created the memorial, had received other commissions to create the Lansdowne Trophy for jumping, and a stone figure on the top of the R.N.L.I. building London). The report also mentioned that: "After the sketch of the memorial had been produced and (with several minor amendments) approved, it was found that although some slight approval was given in 1915 for the use of the Prince of Wales feathers on the county badge, the full authority of the Garter King of Arms had not been given. Full approval has now been obtained". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19600723/111/0010
• The War Memorials Trust's record of this memorial can be found at www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/279412
• Cheshire Constabulary's "Book of Remembrance; Remembering Cheshire Police Officers who served and gave their lives in World War I and World War II", by Will Brown of the Museum of Policing in Cheshire, November 2018. (This booklet includes the details of each of those named on the memorial).
• The twenty WW1 casualties named on the main panel of this memorial board had been commemorated on the individual memorials that were erected in 1920 in each of the Constabulary's Divisions' Headquarters. Our records of each of those memorials are on the War Memorials Register under the following references: Broxton Division (91637), Altrincham Division (91641), Eddisbury Division (18186), Nantwich Division (18288), Crewe Division (18342), Northwich Division (18187), Wirral Division (91689), Stockport Division (91690), Dukinfield Division (91691), Macclesfield Division (91699) and Runcorn Division (52341). Cheshire Constabulary is not aware of any such earlier memorials having been erected by the Borough Police forces of Stalybridge, Hyde, Macclesfield and Congleton, or by Chester City Police, all of which had been absorbed into the Constabulary by the time the board was installed. (A supplementary board was added to the memorial in 2018 in respect of WW1 casualty Edward Noel Price, who had formerly worked for Chester City Police).