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    Memorial

    Nottinghamshire County Constabulary - WW1 and WW2

    Photograph of the memorial

    Source: Copyright Paul Coffey

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    Current Location

    Nottinghamshire Police HQ, Sherwood Lodge Drive, Arnold, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 8PP, England

    OS Grid Reference

    SK 57410 50452

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    68029
    Description
    Rectangular, red brick wall with two smaller protruding walls at right angles, set on a brick base. The back wall has three tablets set into it, above a larger tablet that has a carved depiction of the Nottinghamshire Police crest at its centre. Upon the three tablets, the left carries the WW1 names, the right WW2: the central table carries the commemoration and a raised coat of arms. All lettering is incised in gilt.
    Inscription
    Top centre tablet: NOTTINGHAMSHIRE/ CONSTABULARY/ IN MEMORY OF/ OUR COMRADES/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE/ WORLD WARS. Left tablet: 1914 - 1918/ (Names) Right tablet: 1939 - 1945/ (Names)/ AT THE GOING/ DOWN OF THE/ SUN/ AND IN THE/ MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER/ THEM. Lower tablet: THIS MEMORIAL WAS MOVED TO THE/ FORCE TRAINING SCHOOL EPPERSTONE UPON CLOSURE OF/ SHIREHALL POLICE STATION 31ST MARCH 1984/ IT WAS RELOCATED TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS AT A SERVICE OF DEDICATION ON 11TH NOVEMBER 2009
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    21
    Died
    21
    Information shown
    Forename, surname.
    Order of names
    Alphabetically by surname.
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Number Commemorated
    6
    Died
    6
    Information shown
    Surname, forename.
    Order of names
    Alphabetically by surname
    Maker(s)
    • Chris Holmes, Stone Carver

    • Mansfield Memorials, Restorer

    Maintenance History
    Twenty of Nottinghamshire Constabulary's WW1 casualties were originally commemorated as employees of the County Council (see IWM 59401). The original creator of the Constabulary's own stone tablets inscribed with the names of WW1 and WW2 casualties is unknown, as is the precise date after WW2 that they were erected at the County Constabulary's HQ at High Pavement. In 2009 stone mason Chris Holmes created the lower, supplementary tablet (bearing the Force crest and the history of the memorial) which, along with the names tablets, form the revised memorial that was installed at the Police HQ at Arnold.

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    11-11-2009

    Chief Constable Julia Hodson.

    Dedicated

    11/11/2009

    Reverend David Monkton (Force Chaplain) led the service

    Previous Location(s)

    • Nottinghamshire Police Training School, Epperstone Manor, Epperstone, Newark And Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, NG14 6BJ

      Year of move

      2009

      Reason for move

      When the Police Training School was closed, and the site sold off and redeveloped into housing, the memorial was removed; in 2009 it was installed at the Nottinghamshire Police Headquarters at Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 8PP

    • Nottinghamshire County Police Headquarters, High Pavement, adjoining Shire Hall, Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 1HN, England

      Year of move

      31/3/1984

      Reason for move

      The WW1/WW2 tablets were originally erected in the Nottinghamshire County Constabulary Headquarters at High Pavement. The County Constabulary Headquarters relocated in 1954 to Epperstone Manor, but the memorials remained at High Pavement (which became the Divisional HQ, and remained so until 1984). In 1984 the memorial tablets were taken to the Police Training School at Epperstone.

    Custodian
    Nottinghamshire Police

    Components

    Tablets

    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    • Nottinghamshire Police "Force Times", Issue 18, November 2009 (page 5), reported the refurbishment and re-dedication of the memorial stones. The article began: "They were police officers protecting the people of Nottinghamshire who joined the army to fight for their country.... and they died on the blood-soaked battlefields of the First World War. Their names were engraved in stone to commemorate their sacrifice but for many years those tablets have been hidden away. But now a new memorial at Force headquarters has been built to honour police officers killed in action in both world wars. On Wednesday 11 November, Remembrance Day, a service of dedication will take place next to the monument as two stone tablets showing the names of those killed are put on display for the first time in years. Led by force chaplain, the Rev. David Monkton, it will include standard bearers from various army regiments, including the Grenadier Guards. The stones have been in storage since they were removed from Epperstone Manor four years ago. They were originally on display at the former Shire Hall Police Station in Nottingham, now the Galleries of Justice". The report also mentioned that (as well as adding the two new stones, bearing the Force crest and the history of the memorial), the two tablets inscribed with the casualties' names had "been refurbished by stonemason's Mansfield Memorials by Skanta", and that "Memorial stones depicting the names of city officers remain on display on the staircase of Central Police Station". (These latter WW1 and WW2 memorials commemorate casualties from Nottingham City Police, which at the time was a separate Force. Our records 27346 and 27347 refer).
    • The War Memorials Trust's record of this memorial can be found at https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250720/