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Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Lambeth
Town
Upper Norwood
County
Greater London
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Placed
    Date: 1914
    Attended by:
Lost
Lost
WM Reference
86822

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Previous locations
  • 10
    Norwood Police Station
    Gipsy Hill
    Upper Norwood
    Lambeth
    Greater London
    SE19 1NL
    England

    OS Grid Ref: TQ 33383 70799
    Denomination: Undefined
Description
A portrait of the deceased, surmounted with the Crown, and flanked by the Allied flags; beneath the portrait is the inscription.
Inscription
For King and Country/ In memory of Police Constable Fred Stubley, 833 P, who joined the service on the 2nd day of January, 1911; Gunner, Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Fleet Reserve, Immediate Class No. 38, of "H.M.S. Good Hope," which foundered with all hands whilst engaged in action with the German Fleet off the coast of Chile, South America, on the 1st day of November 1914./ This Memorial is subscribed as a token of the esteem and regard in which he was held by all his comrades. (The above wording is a transcript of a report on page 58 of The Police Review and Parade Gossip, dated 29/1/1915, which quoted the inscription but did not indicate the precise layout of the text).
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Stubley, Fred
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Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Police rank and collar number, and date he joined the Metropolitan Police, full name and rank in which he served in WW1, date/place/manner of death.
    Order of information: Undefined
Condition
History
Norwood Police Station's building in Gipsy Hill (where the memorial was placed in 1914) was supplanted by a new Police Station on Central Hill in 1939. (The former Station building in Gipsy Hill was later converted into Police flats in the 1940s). What became of the memorial is currently unknown.
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • The Police Review and Parade Gossip, 29/1/1915 (page 58); reported that the 'tablet' had been erected in Gipsy Hill Police Station, and also printed photographs of the deceased.

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