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: 27 June 1922
    Attended by: The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Brigadier General Sir William Horwood, performed the unveiling of the memorial tablet
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
94968

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Current location

In the Memorial Garden
Peel House
Hendon Police Training College
Aerodrome Road
Hendon
Barnet
Greater London
NW9 5JE
England

OS Grid Ref: TQ 21853 89801
Denomination: Undefined

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Previous locations
  • Metropolitan Police storage unit
    London

    OS Grid Ref: Undefined
    Denomination: Undefined
  • Norman Shaw North (formerly New Scotland Yard)
    Victoria Embankment
    Westminster
    City Of Westminster
    Greater London
    SW1A 2TT
    England

    OS Grid Ref: TQ 30281 79813
    Denomination: Undefined
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Description
Nowy-headed marble tablet, with Metropolitan Police Crest at top-centre and incised black lettering. (Details of the Metropolitan and City Police Hospital at Twickenham that is mentioned in the inscription can be found under our reference 48264).
Inscription
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF/ THE 345 MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918./ "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE". / TO THEIR HONOURED MEMORY A HOSPITAL/ HAS BEEN ERECTED IN THE GROUNDS OF/ THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE ORPHANAGE/ TWICKENHAM AT A COST OF £18,000/ SUBSCRIBED BY ALL RANKS/ OF THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE
Inscription legible?
yes
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 0
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 0
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Undefined
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Tablet
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble - Carrara
  • Plinth
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Granite - Black
  • Frame
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Marble
Listing information
Condition
History
2016: Following the redevelopment of the Peel Centre site at Hendon, the marble tablet was installed in the new Memorial Garden, which was re-dedicated by HRH the Duke of Sussex on 20/10/2016. / 2002: The memorial tablet was retrieved from the storage unit and sent for refurbishment by funeral directors Ernest Larner & Son and Kelly of Mill Hill; this included replacing the original coloured-marble frame with a black granite base/plinth. It was subsequently taken to Hendon, where it was unveiled by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens on 10/9/2002 in the Garden of Remembrance of Hendon Police Training College that had been dedicated by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 2001. / 1967: New Scotland Yard vacated its premises on the Victoria Embankment and relocated to 10 Broadway, at which time the marble tablet was placed in a Metropolitan Police storage area./ 1922: The nowy-headed marble tablet was unveiled at New Scotland Yard, in the building now known as the Norman Shaw North building.
Costs

Comments: This stone was installed at New Scotland Yard to commemorate the erection of a Hospital at Twickenham by members of the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police, who had collectively raised £18,000 to build it as a memorial to their colleagues who had died in World War 1.

Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Responsibility
Metropolitan Police
Reference
  • Daily Mail 28/6/1922 (page 2) reported: POLICE MEMORIAL UNVEILED. Policemen from all over the Metropolitan area attended at Scotland Yard yesterday, when the Commissioner, Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood, unveiled a memorial tablet to the Metropolitan Police who fell in the war. Among the numerous wreaths was one from a number of children at the Police Orphanage, Twickenham, inscribed "To our dear daddies, who died in the war". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19220628/013/0002 Page 5 of the same paper printed a photograph of the memorial taken during the event, with the caption: "LONDON POLICE MEMORIAL TO FALLEN. Brigadier General Sir William Horwood (right), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, after the unveiling yesterday at Scotland Yard of a memorial tablet to men of the force who lost their lives in the war". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19220628/045/0005
  • News Shopper 8/3/2002 reported the restoration ( www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/6354326.commemorative-plaque-is-restored/ _
  • The Press Potters Bar, News Edition 12-9-2002: The nowy-headed memorial tablet was added to the memorial gardens at Hendon after it was renovated by funeral directors Ernest Larner & Son and Kelly of Mill Hill.

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