Derbyshire Constabulary Board

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Reference WMO/249967

Address:

Derbyshire Constabulary Headquarters

Butterley Hall

Coach Road

Ripley

DE5 3ZN

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:
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Originally a square oak board with a flat central roundel surrounded by a carved laurel wreath with ribbons and decorative punctuated borders and a projecting shield at the head. The gilded WW1 inscription was incised in upright capital roman lettering on the ribbon at the head and the gilded names were incised in two columns in the roundel in upright capital roman lettering. Later an additional oblong board was very skilfully added at the foot with WW2 names in similar lettering. Started at Derbyshire Constabulary HQ, Iron Gate, Derby (in the entrance) then at Derbyshire County Police Headquarters, St Marys Gate, Derby- which became the Police Memorabilia Museum
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DERBYSHIRE CONSTABULARY/ 1914 1918/ IN MEMORY/ OF OUR COMRADES WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ (Names)/ 1939 1945/ (Names)

WW1- Column 1- WILLIAM ASTLE/ PERCY JAMES BAILEY/ WALTER JOHN BLACKER/ MICHAEL BOYLE/ HARRY BRUMBY/ RICHARD BULLIMORE. D.C.M./ ARTHUR HENRY CONNELL/ ELIJAH COOPER/ FREDERICK GEORGE DUNHAM/ WILLIAM ALFRED EDWARDS/ JAMES ELLIOT/ GEORGE SIDNEY GOUGH/ BERTRAM HALL/ JOHN HANCOCK/ GEORGE HOOKER/ WALTER HARDY D.C.M./ JOHN WILLIAM HAYNES; Column 2- GEORGE IRWIN/ JAMES JACKSON/ BENJAMIN GEORGE JINKS/ JOHN ROBINSON LEIVERS/ MYLES JOHN CHISLETT LITTLE/ WALTER MEAKIN/ EDGAR JAMES MELLON/ ALFRED PERCY OWEN/ RICHARD HARVEY PELL/ FRANK REED/ FREDRIC HAROLD SHENTON/ LESLIE JOHN SMITH/ GEORGE HENRY SYMONDS/ FRED CARVER THOMPSON/ HARRY WARDLE/ HENRY MAITLAND WEBSTER/ WILLIAM HENRY WHEATCROFT; Centred below the Columns- ARTHUR WILSON; WW2- HERBERT VALENTINE BAKER/ WILLIAM VICTOR BIBBY/ LLOYD GEORGE BURTON/ GEORGE COOK; Column 2- HOWARD INSLEY/ GEORGE MORLEY LUCAS/ JAMES WILLIAM EWART RICHARDSON/ DESMOND ARTHUR RICHINGS; Centred below the Columns- EDWARD THOMAS SMITH

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