Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Medina
- Town
- Newport
- County
- Isle Of Wight
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- Police Constable A. Turner of Yarmouth (Artist)
- Ceremony
- Placed
Date: May 1920
Attended by:
- Placed
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40773
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Current location
Crime Incident Management Unit
Newport Police Station (Hampshire Constabulary)
High Street
Newport
Medina
Isle Of Wight
PO30 1SZ
England
OS Grid Ref: SZ 50218 89207
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Police Headquarters
Fairlee Rd
Newport
Medina
Isle Of Wight
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Police Headquarters
- Description
- Framed painted Roll of Honour scroll, depicting a soldier and a police constable standing either side of a columned arch (which is topped by a wreath with the Constabulary badge) that frames a headstone bearing the five casualties' names; in the background (beyond the headstone) are depictions of Carisbrooke Castle and the burning ruins of Ypres; in the foreground is a depiction of a stone slab bearing the dedicatory inscription.
- Inscription
- ISLE OF WIGHT/ CONSTABULARY/ ROLL OF HONOUR/ (names)/ IN/ HONOUR AND MEMORY/ OF OUR COMRADES/ EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brown, Charles H.
Burton, Fred
Kemp, Frederick A.
Mills, Jesse
Russell, Sidney W.
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, Regiment, place/manner/date of death
Order of information: Names listed chronologically by date of death
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- 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
- Isle of Wight County Press 1/5/1920: reported that the"handsome framed scroll in memory of the five members of the I.W. Constabulary who fell in the war", that had been created by PC A. Turner of Yarmouth, was to be hung at the Isle of Wight HQ in Fairlee, Newport.
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