Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Vale Royal
- Town
- Northwich
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Placed
Date: 1920
Attended by:
- Placed
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 18187
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Current location
In the stairwell
between the 1st and 2nd floors (i.e. a non-public area)
Northwich Police Station
Chester Way
Northwich
Vale Royal
Cheshire
CW9 5QJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 66047 73928
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rectangular nowy-headed oak board, with the Cheshire Constabulary crest at top-centre. The inscription is in black lettering, apart from the details of the man killed in action, which are in red lettering.
- Inscription
- CHESHIRE CONSTABULARY / RECORD OF MEN WHO SERVED IN / H.M. FORCES DURING THE WAR 1914 - 1918 / NORTHWICH DIVISION / KILLED IN ACTION / (NAME) / WOUNDED / (NAMES) / ALSO SERVED / (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barlow, F
Bramall, S
Brown, R
Collins, J W
Durnell, G H
Finneran, T
Gray, H
Heath, W
Jackson, F L
Leigh, J W
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 17
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Police rank, initial, surname, Military rank and unit, whether died or wounded
Order of information: Grouped by whether died, wounded or served, then alphabetically by surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: height 1070m, width 530mm
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
- Costs
Comments: "To the Best of our Skill and Knowledge; A Short History of the Cheshire Constabulary 1857-1957", compiled by R.W. James. Page 36 states that "In 1920 the Standing Joint Committee authorised the expenditure of £100 to be spent on specially designed wooden plaques recording particulars of service in H.M. Forces of members of each division to be erected at the respective Divisional Headquarters". www.museumofpolicingincheshire.org.uk/Features/Texts/Best of our skills.pdf
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Cheshire Constabulary
- Reference
- "To the Best of our Skill and Knowledge; A Short History of the Cheshire Constabulary 1857-1957", compiled by R.W. James. Page 36 states that "In 1920 the Standing Joint Committee authorised the expenditure of £100 to be spent on specially designed wooden plaques recording particulars of service in H.M. Forces of members of each division to be erected at the respective Divisional Headquarters". www.museumofpolicingincheshire.org.uk/Features/Texts/Best of our skills.pdf
- Cheshire Constabulary "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 former Northwich Division officers who died, such as P.C. 275 John William Collins, who died on 29/10/1914 serving in the 1st Battalion Scots Guards).
- The memorial is mentioned on page 32 of the Northwich and District Heritage Society's publication "Northwich's WW1 Memorials", April 2014.
- This Northwich Division memorial is recorded by the War Memorials Trust as reference 219685 (see www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/219685/ )
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