Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Fareham
- Town
- Southwick Park
- County
- Hampshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17 July 1949
Attended by: General Sir Miles Dempsey (Colonel Commandant of the Royal Military Police) preformed he unveiling at Inkerman Barracks - Dedicated
Date: 17 July 1949
Attended by: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 88281
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Current location
Within the Church
beside the Memorial Arch
Royal Military Police Church
Defence School of Policing and Guarding (DSPG)
Southwick Park
Fareham
Hampshire
PO17 6EJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 63490 08780
Denomination: Church of England
- Previous locations
- Royal Military Police Museum
Roussillon Barracks
Chichester
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 4BN
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 860 040
Denomination: Undefined - Royal Military Police (Inkerman Barracks)
Woking
Chichester
West Sussex
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Royal Military Police Museum
- Description
- Blue and red leather-bound Book of Remembrance, listing all WW2 casualties, displayed within a glass-topped case. Above the case is the brass plaque that relates to the Book of Remembrance.
- Inscription
- (Cover): MILITARY POLICE/ PRO DEO ET PATRIA/ 1939 - 1945 (1st page): ROLL OF HONOUR/ 1939 - 1945 (2nd page): THE FOLLOWING/ PROVOST OFFICERS AND WARRANT OFFICERS/ NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN' OF THE/ CORPS OF MILITARY POLICE/ GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING/ AND THEIR COUNTRY DURING/ THE WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945/ "At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them" (Other pages): (names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Acford, Leslie C
Adams, Christopher C
Adams, Harry
Adams, Henry W
Adams, Ronald
Addy, Christopher
Adkin, Arthur H
Agar, Ronald H
Agnew, Arthur
Agnew, Richard
See details for all 317 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1044
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1044
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Arch
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Arch
- 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 - Responsibility
- Royal Military Police
- Reference
- Illustrated London News 30/7/1949 (page 175) published a photograph of the service at which the Book of Remembrance was unveiled, (along with the Memorial Arch, see separate memorial record WMR 43417).
- West Sussex Gazette 21/7/1949 (page 5) reported the unveiling.
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