Memorial details

Memorial type
Painting / Print
District
Oxford
Town
Oxford
County
Oxfordshire
Country
England
Commemoration
Second World War (1939-1945)
Maker
Oxford City Police Constable Alan Charles Harry Course (Artist)
Ceremony
  • Placed
    Date: 1944
    Attended by:
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
90852

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Current location

In the Club Room
St Aldates Police Station
St Aldate's (A420)
Oxford
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1SZ
England

OS Grid Ref: SP 51433 05758
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
A hand-drawn illustrated map, recording the names/nicknames and caricatures of members of Oxford City Police who were serving in the Armed Forces in July 1944, depicting where they were serving at that time, and in which military unit. The glazed-framed map has the Oxford City Police badge at top-centre, and is surrounded by a border that includes the names and badges of the military units in which those named were serving. (Some of those commemorated were recorded on the map by their nicknames, under which the associated "Names" records have been set up; some names were also misspelt. As far as possible, their true forenames have been ascertained from other records, such as the Oxford City Police Association and/or the 1939 Register, and included on those "Names" records).
Inscription
OXFORD CITY POLICE/ A/ MAP/ shewing the disposition/ of those members of the/ OXFORD CITY POLICE/ serving in the/ ARMED FORCES/ of/ HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE/ JULY 1944
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Ames
Ames
Barnes, George
Bateman, Jim
Bayton, Fred
Bradberry, Don
Butcher, Stanley
Castleton, H
Cory, 'bill'
Curtis, Ted
See details for all 39 names
Commemorations
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
    Total names on memorial: 39
    Served and returned: 39
    Died: 0
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Rank, forename or nickname, surname, decorations, military unit
    Order of information: Names are recorded geographically on the map, corresponding with the location in which they were serving at the time.
Components
  • Painting
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Paper
  • Frame
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood, Glass
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Responsibility
Thames Valley Police
Reference
  • A monochrome image of the map was included on page 99 of "A Pictorial History of Oxford City Police 1869-1968", by G. Rose (published 1979).
  • One of those misnamed on the memorial as Midshipman Gordon Showett was actually Gordon Frederick George Showell, whose oral account of his training at Oxford City Police (where he was in the Criminal Investigation Department) and experience in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm is in the IWM archive, and can be accessed via www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80034026

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