Memorial

Essex County Constabulary WW1 bronze plaque

Essex County Constabulary WW1 Memorial at Essex Police HQ

Source: Copyright Essex Police

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Current Location

In the Reception area., Essex Police Headquarters, Sandford Road, Springfield, Chelmsford, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 6DA, England

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 88384
Description: A bronze plaque, with stepped-top. Beneath the red and gold crest of Essex County Constabulary, the inscription is in raised lettering. (The wording of this inscription is the same as that on the original marble WW1 memorial tablet that was erected in Shire Hall in 1920, our record of which is WMR 22205).
Inscription: ESSEX COUNTY/ CONSTABULARY/ 1914 - 1919/ IN THANKFUL MEMORY OF THE/ MEN OF THIS FORCE WHO IN/ THESE YEARS OF WAR WENT FORTH/ TO FIGHT FOR GOD & THE RIGHT/ THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO RETURNED/ NOT AGAIN ARE HERE INSCRIBED/ TO BE HONOURED FOR EVERMORE/ (names)/ ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES

Plaque

Made from: Bronze

Condition: Good

The Essex Police Memorial Trust website (https://memorial.essex.police.uk/world-war-1/ ) records that this memorial was erected in the Reception area at Police HQ in the summer of 2000.
Biographical details of those named on this memorial can be found at https://www.essex.police.uk/police-forces/essex-police/areas/essex-police/au/about-us/essex-police-memorial-trust/world-war-one/world-war-one/