https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/cultural-collections/memorials/in-the-collection/world-war-i/ww1-norman-shaw-lamp/ , states of this memorial that: 'Norman Shaw North Lamp of Remembrance. This cast iron lamp was installed as a memorial to the civilian staff from the offices of the Commissioner and the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police killed in the First World War. It was unveiled on 11 November 1925 and originally included bronze plaques inscribed with 20 names. The lamp stands in the main staircase of a building known today as Norman Shaw North. Between 1889 and 1966 this was part of New Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police HQ. It became part of the Parliamentary Estate in 1972 and now largely contains offices for MPs and their staff'.

Biographical details of the twenty casualties stated to have been commemorated on the bronze plaques associated with this memorial can be found at https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/war-memorial-lists/war-memorial-police-staff-ww1.pdf

Dundee Evening Telegraph 16/9/1926 (page 13): 'LAMP THAT IS NEVER PUT OUT. Scotland Yard's War Memorial. Scotland Yard, storehouse of the underworld's secrets, has a lamp which is never put out. It stands in a long wide corridor, which might be called the corridor of secrets, leading to the room of the "chief" of London's police force. It is a large lamp, not unlike one of old London's street lanterns. Its glass panels have been dulled to subdue its beams. There is something sepulchral about this shaded light in the corridor of secrets. It is only when you approach close to it in the daytime that you know the lamp is still burning. It has been alight for months now, and it will burn as long as Scotland Yard remains. This everlasting light is one of London's simplest war shrines; it is the "Yard's" memorial to its civil servants who fell in the war and bears the brief inscription - " In memory of those members of the Civil Service staff of the Metropolitan Police Force who laid down their lives." The light burns by day and night in memory of men who will never again pass through the great swinging doors of Scotland Yard'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19260916/115/0013

The National Archives has records of this memorial under references https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C555196 and https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4767433?descriptiontype=Full&ref=HO+45/19937

The War Memorials Trust's record of this Lamp of Remembrance memorial and its bronze plaques can be found at https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/205653/

The bronze plaques that were attached to this Lamp of Remembrance (and have since been lost) reportedly included 10 staff from the Receiver's Office who died. A wooden board commemorating those same ten staff of the Receiver's Office is now at Hendon Police College; our record of that memorial can be found at https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/96786