Preston Borough Police WW1

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Reference WMO/222055

Address:

Preston Police Station

Lancaster Road North

Preston

PR1 2SA

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A large ornate brass plaque with decorative outer border. Research on the memorial has been undertaken by P.C. Nick Mattlock of Lancashire Constabulary. PC 96 (George Lowther) George was born in 1887 in Dalton in Furness, the son of James and Agnes Lowther. He served with the Royal Artillery from 1903 until he was transferred to the Army Reserve in 1911.George married Ethelburga Whitham in 1913 in Garstang. At the time of his death they were living at R.C. School House, Snow Hill, Scorton. (although he is not commemorated at Scorton). As an Army reservist George was among the men who were called to the Colours in 1914 at the start of the war. He was a police constable, serving with Preston Borough Police. George was killed in action on 23 August 1914. He was 27. The Memorial was originally at the Birley Street Police Station and then at the Lawson Street Police Station
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FOR GOD COUNTRY.In memory of the members of the PRESTON BOROUGH POLICE FORCE who fell in the Great War 1914-1919

P.C.2 JOHN BALDWIN LEE. 5th Lancers, Killed in action. P.C.5 WALTER HAMER. Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action. P.C.11. DAVID GODDEN. 1st Grenadier Guards. Killed in action. P.C. 50 ARTHUR WINTERBOTTOM. Royal Flying Corps. Killed in action. P.C.96. GEORGE LOWTHER. Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action. P.C.67. WALTER SEED Royal Garrison Artillery, Missing, Presumed Killed in action. P.C. 67. THOMAS RAWLCLIFFE. Military Foot Police. Died of Tuberculosis contracted in France. ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES IN THE FORCE

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