Crewe Chronicle 23/7/1960 (page 15) reported that the memorial has been installed at the County Police Headquarters. The report stated that: "The decision to erect the board was not made until 1954, when it was decided that it should cover not only the County Force but the Forces of Chester City, Macclesfield, Hyde, Stalybridge and Congleton." (Mr Ayres, who created the memorial, had received other commissions to create the Lansdowne Trophy for jumping, and a stone figure on the top of the R.N.L.I. building London). The report also mentioned that: "After the sketch of the memorial had been produced and (with several minor amendments) approved, it was found that although some slight approval was given in 1915 for the use of the Prince of Wales feathers on the county badge, the full authority of the Garter King of Arms had not been given. Full approval has now been obtained". https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19600723/111/0010

The twenty WW1 casualties named on the main panel of this memorial board had been commemorated on the individual memorials that were erected in 1920 in each of the Constabulary's Divisions' Headquarters. Our records of each of those memorials are on the War Memorials Register under the following references: Broxton Division (91637), Altrincham Division (91641), Eddisbury Division (18186), Nantwich Division (18288), Crewe Division (18342), Northwich Division (18187), Wirral Division (91689), Stockport Division (91690), Dukinfield Division (91691), Macclesfield Division (91699) and Runcorn Division (52341). Cheshire Constabulary is not aware of any such earlier memorials having been erected by the Borough Police forces of Stalybridge, Hyde, Macclesfield and Congleton, or by Chester City Police, all of which had been absorbed into the Constabulary by the time the board was installed. (A supplementary board was added to the memorial in 2018 in respect of WW1 casualty Edward Noel Price, who had formerly worked for Chester City Police).

Cheshire Constabulary's "Book of Remembrance; Remembering Cheshire Police Officers who served and gave their lives in World War I and World War II", by Will Brown of the Museum of Policing in Cheshire, November 2018. (This booklet includes the details of each of those named on the memorial).

The War Memorials Trust's record of this memorial can be found at https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/279412