Blackpool Police Force WW1

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Reference WMO/143890

Address:

Blackpool Central Police Station

Bonny Street

Blackpool

FY1 5RL

England

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Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Timber Oak
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The memorial commemorates those Blackpool Police Officers who died in the Great War. It was originally located in the Police Station on South King Street and moved to Bonny Street on its closure in the 1960s. The board is surmounted by the cap badge of the Blackpool Police Force, in a carved laurel wreath.
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KILLED IN ACTION/ (Names)DIED IN SERVICE/ (Names) THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED/ IN SACRED MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF BLACKPOOL POLICE/ FORCE, WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR KING/ AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. 1914 1919

ACTING INSP ALFRED SMITH VC EAST LANCS. REGIMENT. P.C.10 WILLIAM WHALLEY GRENADIER GUARDS. P.C.26 ROBERT GOODWIN GRENADIER GUARDS. P.C.93 SAMUEL J. MASON GRENADIER GUARDS. P.C.32 ALFRED RASTRICK ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. P.C.95 JOHN FRITH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. P.C.74 JAMES WARWICK MILITARY MOUNTED POLICE. P.C.17 JOHN A. COOPER MILITARY FOOT POLICE.

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