Memorial

Metropolitan and City Police WW1 Memorial Hospital boards (replica/replacements)

Memorial Boards in their original location, outside The Simpson Hall

Source: Copyright Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund

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Current Location

Training Building, Peel House, Hendon Police Training College, Aerodrome Road, Hendon, Barnet, Greater London, NW9 5JE, England

TQ 22000 89592

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 68147
Description: Two large rectangular nowy-headed wooden boards, with the carved Metropolitan Police crest at top-centre, which were created in 2005 as replacements for the original boards that formerly hung inside the Metropolitan and City Police Memorial hospital in Twickenham. (The original boards made in 1923 had later become badly damaged by damp while in storage - see WMR 48264, so these replacement boards were commissioned and installed at Hendon in 2005. As the inscription on the original boards stated that they listed 386 casualties, and these replacement boards list 387, an extra name was evidently added at some point. As far as is known, all the data on these replacement boards was copied from the originals, so it appears the extra name was added to the original boards, probably soon after 1923, and later copied onto these replacement boards).
Inscription: (Both boards read): THIS HOSPITAL WAS ERECTED AND EQUIPPED BY THE/ MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE FORCES/ TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF 387 COMRADES WHO MADE/ THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 387
Died: 387
Information shown: Surname and initials
Order of names: Listed alphabetically by surname, with three columns of names on each of the two boards

Maker(s): Linbrook Services, Builder
Sponsor Type: corporate
Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information: The cost of the creating the Boards (as replacements for the originals that once hung in the Memorial Hospital at Twickenham) was funded by the Metropolitan Police Force.
Maintenance History: 2016: Moved from outside the Simpson Room to the Training Building at the newly-built Peel House on the Hendon site.// 2005: Created and installed outside the Simpson Room.