Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Barnet
Town
Hendon
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Unveiled
    Date: 29 June 2005
    Attended by: HRH the Prince of Wales performed the unveiling of the boards; others present were Metropolitan Police Service representatives
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
68147

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Current location

Training Building
Peel House
Hendon Police Training College
Aerodrome Road
Hendon
Barnet
Greater London
NW9 5JE
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 22000 89592
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Two large rectangular nowy-headed wooden boards, with the carved Metropolitan Police crest at top-centre, which were created in 2005 as replacements for the original boards that formerly hung inside the Metropolitan and City Police Memorial hospital in Twickenham. (The original boards made in 1923 had later become badly damaged by damp while in storage - see WMR 48264, so these replacement boards were commissioned and installed at Hendon in 2005. As the inscription on the original boards stated that they listed 386 casualties, and these replacement boards list 387, an extra name was evidently added at some point. As far as is known, all the data on these replacement boards was copied from the originals, so it appears the extra name was added to the original boards, probably soon after 1923, and later copied onto these replacement boards).
Inscription
(Both boards read): THIS HOSPITAL WAS ERECTED AND EQUIPPED BY THE/ MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE FORCES/ TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF 387 COMRADES WHO MADE/ THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Abery, W E
Adams, G
Alderman, G
Aleen, W
Alexander, A
Allard, C L
Andrews, J
Andrews, W A
Anniss, T
Archer, A
See details for all 387 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 387
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 387
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Surname and initials
    Order of information: Listed alphabetically by surname, with three columns of names on each of the two boards
Components
  • Board
    Measurements: height c3000mm, width c1500mm
    Materials: Wood
Listing information
Condition
History
2016: Moved from outside the Simpson Room to the Training Building at the newly-built Peel House on the Hendon site.// 2005: Created and installed outside the Simpson Room.
Costs

Comments: The cost of the creating the Boards (as replacements for the originals that once hung in the Memorial Hospital at Twickenham) was funded by the Metropolitan Police Force.

Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Sponsorship
Corporate
Responsibility
Metropolitan Police
Reference

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