Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 12/11/1924 reported: "NEW SCOTLAND YARD MEMORIAL. HOME SECRETARY AND MEN WHO MADE THE SACRIFICE. The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson Hicks, yesterday unveiled a mural tablet, in memory of the members of the Receivers’ Office at New Scotland Yard who fell in the war. Those attending the ceremony included Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner, and Sir James Olive, the Deputy Commissioner. Mr. F. J. Moylan, the Receiver, explained that out of seventy men engaged in the Receiver’s Office, fifty-three served in the war, and ten were killed. In unveiling the tablet, the Home Secretary described it as very fitting that his first official act as Home Secretary on such a day should be the unveiling of that memorial. "l sometimes wonder,” he said, “how long that great ceremony which we have witnessed to-day will continue. I hope it will last for many years in order to remind those living of the sacrifice made by those men on their behalf.” He was not one of those who thought that war was an unmixed evil. For instance, it brought forth heroism and even unselfishness. There were, perhaps, too many in this world who lived lives of ease and pleasure and selfishness, but when the call came there were many who made a magnificent response. Quite cheerfully they gave their lives for the country, and upon occasions like this he thought it was fitting that their thoughts should turn to the cheerfulness and willingness with which those men made the great sacrifice. To-day, if some of them found that life was a bit of a burden, it would be well for them to carry their minds back to 1914, and to think of all that that meant to those young men. " www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19241112/200/0007 (N.B. The 'mural tablet' referred to in the above report was evidently this wooden memorial board, as the bronze plaques re the 'Lamp of Remembrance' memorial were not unveiled in New Scotland Yard until a year later, on 11/11/1925. Our record of that Lamp of Remembrance memorial can be found at https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/64050 ).

West Middlesex Gazette Saturday 15/11/1924 reported on Page 9: 'Sir William Johnson-Hicks, Bart., the new Home Secretary, on Tuesday unveiled a mural tablet in memory of members of the Receiver's Office at New Scotland Yard who fell in the war. Those attending the ceremony included Brigadier General Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner, and Sir James Olive. the Deputy Commissioner. Mr. F. J. Moylan, the Receiver, explained that out of seventy men engaged in the Receiver's Office fifty-three served in the war, and ten were killed'. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002564/19241115/165/0009