Lancashire Evening Post, 17/11/1921 (page 3) reported at length the unveiling of the WW1 brass plaque, which at that time was mounted within a frame of Swedish marble. (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19211117/140/0003 ). The report mentioned that, in a speech prior to the unveiling, Chief Constable H.P.P. Lane commented that nearly 500 members of the County Force had enlisted in the War. Of those, 102 were Reservists, 3 in the Royal Navy and 99 in the Army, who were called up at the beginning of the War; further officers subsequently enlisted. 49 of former officers had been killed or died in service; 380 had returned to the Constabulary. Distinctions won had included a DSO, 10 Military Medals, 5 DCMs, 2 Meritorious Medals and 2 foreign decorations. (The report also mentioned that, four months after the outbreak of the War, the Standing Joint Committee had sanctioned Lancashire Constabulary to raise its own Battalion, thought to be the only Police force in the country to have taken that step. The Chief Constable remarked that, when he had called for volunteers for that Battalion, out of 1843 members of the Force, 1795 volunteered; the remaining 48 being either too old or unfit for 'the rigours of fighting'. The scheme was approved by the Home Office, and Lord Derby had promised to equip them, but the War Office turned it down).

The War Memorials Trust's record of this memorial is WMO 181340, see https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/181340/