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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Calderdale
- Town
- Halifax
- County
- West Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17 September 1920
Attended by: Major Richardson performed the unveiling
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Lost
- WM Reference
- 29382
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- Previous locations
- It hung in the Recreation Room
Police Station (since closed)
Harrison Road
Halifax
Calderdale
West Yorkshire
HX1 2AF
England
OS Grid Ref: SE 09118 24867
Denomination: Undefined
- It hung in the Recreation Room
- Description
- A decorative hand-painted Roll of Honour in an oak frame. The names of the 53 men from Halifax Borough Police who served in the War are recorded in three panels, the middle one of which lists the 7 of them who died.
- Inscription
- (Exact wording unknown. According to a press report of its unveiling, the Roll of Honour was headed "Halifax Borough Police Force. Members who served in the Great War for King and Country", with the dates 1914 and 1919 and the words "Freedom" and "Justice" occupying a prominent position. The 53 names listed upon it were in three sections, the central one of which listed the names of the 7 men who had died ).
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 53
Served and returned: 46
Died: 7
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Name and whether died or survived (the precise details that were included for each man is unknown)
Order of information: Those who died were listed in the centre panel; those who survived were listed in the other two panels
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Roll of honour
- Condition
- History
- 1986: Police Station closed and the WW1 memorial along with some ceremonial swords were stolen during the move to the new police station on Richmond Close
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Calderdale War Dead, Hornshaw and Fowler, published privately, 1995, their memorial 214, IWM 29377 (a WW2 bronze plaque)
- Halifax Evening Courier 18/9/1920 (page 4) reported the unveiling of the memorial the previous afternoon, in the recreation room at the Borough Police Court. The report described the memorial as an oak-framed hand-painted Roll of Honour, listing the names of the 53 men who had served in the Armed Forces, seven of whom had died, and stated that the names were set out in three panels; the centre one containing the names of those who had died. Part of the wording on the Roll of Honour was also reported.
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