Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- City Of Aberdeen
- Town
- Aberdeen
- County
- Grampian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Placed
Date: 2007
Attended by:
- Placed
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 74471
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Current location
Public Office area
Police Scotland North East Divisional Headquartes
Queen Street
Aberdeen
City Of Aberdeen
Grampian
AB10 1ZA
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NJ 94379 06428
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rectangular bronze plaque (portrait), with raised inscription and lettering. (The plaque was made to replace the original granite memorial tablet, which was destroyed when the former Lodge Walk HQ was demolished c1973 - see WMR 69240).
- Inscription
- 1914-1919/ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF/THE ABERDEEN CITY POLICE/IN MEMORY OF THEIR COMRADES/WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/IN THE GREAT WAR/(names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bremner, Alex.
Coutts, Robert
Cruickshank, James
Douglas, Gordon
Duncan, George
Gerrard, George
Grieve, David
Mcintosh, James
Mortimer, Arthur
Ogg, Thomas
See details for all 12 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forenames, surname, decorations (where relevant), Regiment
Order of information: Grouped by Regiment, then in no obvious order
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Plaque
- Condition
- Aberdeen Police WW1
- WMO ID: 261255
- Condition: Good [last updated on 30-11-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Police Scotland
- Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=3861&mforum=warmemscot
- Aberdeen Press and Journal 15/7/1920 (page 3) reported the unveiling of the original Aberdeen City Police Memorial, which was made from polished granite and was erected in the Muster Room of what was then the Force HQ in Lodge Walk - see War Memorials Register record WMR 69240. (After the granite tablet was lost when the Lodge Walk building was demolished c1973, the bronze tablet was created in 2007 as a replacement).
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