Memorial

Metropolitan Police: R Division (Greenwich) WW1 (Lost)

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Type of Memorial: Roll of honour or book of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 96317
Description: An illuminated WW1 Roll of Honour, listing the names of officers from Lee Road, Eltham and Shooters Hill Police Stations (which were all in R Division at the time) who had enlisted in the Armed Forces.
Inscription: (Precise wording unknown. In December 1915 it was reported to list 51 officers who had enlisted in the Armed Forces, one of whom had died on HMS Hawke, and another who had been taken Prisoner of War. It is currently unknown whether further names were subsequently added, or how many additional officers listed on it were later annotated as having died).

Maker(s): Detective Fripp, Designer
Maintenance History: The former Lee High Road Police Station (in which the Roll of Honour was placed in December 1915) was later closed; the building was converted into flats in 2003. What became of the WW1 Roll of Honour is currently unknown.

Roll of honour

Made from: Unknown

Condition: Lost

Lewisham Journal 31 December 1915 reported: 'Lee Police Roll of Honour. An artistically illuminated roll of honour, the work of Detective Fripp, has been placed in Lee-road police station. It contains the names of 51 men from the Lee sub-division who are serving with the Forces. Of these 24 were attached to the Lee-road station and, with the exception of seven, are now at the front. The Eltham station is represented by a list of 13, and Shooters-hill 14. One of the latter was lost with H.M.S. Hawke. Several of the men have been wounded, and a Lee-road policeman has been a prisoner in Germany since August, 1914. The sub-divisional record is one to be proud of'.