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Location
Newport Police Station, Newport, Isle of Wight See map on www.streetmap.co.uk National Inventory of War Memorials Record Link : NIWM Reference 40773 Description Memorial to Police Officers who died while serving in the Army during the Great War The Memorial was painted by PC A Turner of Yarmouth and was originally hung in the Headquarters of the IW Constabulary at Fairlee Road. In 2006 the Memorial was located in the office of the Crime Incident Management Unit, under the care of PC Nigel Roberts. Thanks to PC Nigel Roberts of the Hampshire Constabulary at Newport Police Station for additional information and photograph of the Memorial |
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Memorial
P C Jesse Mills From "The Police Review and Parade Gossip". SERGT. JESSE MILLS, 3rd Coldstream Guards, died at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, on the 16th ult. from wounds in the left buttock, received at the front on October 21st. He was a native of Bognor, and joined the Army in February, 1907. He left in January last to join the Isle of Wight Police. He was 25 years of age and unmarried. He was a steady and reliable man, and during the short time he was serving in the Force showed himself to have the making of a good Constable. P.C. Mills was buried with full military honours at Dublin on the 19th ult. The bands of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Royal Irish Rifles attended. P.S. Sampson, of the Isle of Wight Constabulary, who is now a shoeing smith serving in the 5th Lancers, stationed at Dublin, represented the Island Police, and Corporal Allen, 5th Lancers, the relatives. The parents of P.C. Mills have been officially notified that their only other son, G. Mills, R.F.A., has been killed. We offer them our deep sympathy in their terrible bereavement. Our portrait is from a photo by Messrs G. Legekian and Co., Cairo, Egypt. (from the issue dated Dec 4, 1914) |
Inscription
ISLE OF WIGHT CONSTABULARY ROLL OF HONOUR SGT JESSE MILLS Coldstream Guards Wounded at Ypres : Died of Wounds 21st October 1914 : 16th November 1914 BDR. FRED BURTON R.G.A. Killed in Acton at Ypres 24th April 1915 L Cpl FREDERICK A KEMP Coldstream Guards KILLED IN ACTION ON WESTERN FRONT 27th August 1918 GNR. CHARLES H BROWN R.F.A. Died in Hospital in France 30th October 1918 PTE. SIDNEY W RUSSELL 1/8th HANTS Died in Hospital in Egypt 10th December 1918 IN HONOUR AND MEMORY OF OUR COMRADES EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 19 Further Information
From the Isle of Wight County Press Saturday 1st May 1920 : "A handsome framed scroll in memory of the five members of the I W Constabulary who fell in the war is to be hung at the headquarters, Fairlee, Newport. It is the artistic work of P.C. A. Turner, of Yarmouth, who served throughout the war on the Western Front. The scroll is supported by two artistic pillars, surmounted by the badge of the force, and below is a representation of a stone slab bearing the inscription "In honour and memory of our comrades - European War, 1914 - 19". Standing by the pillars, and looking at the scroll, are the figures of a constable in uniform on the one hand, and a fully equipped soldier on the other, whilst cleverly introduced into the background are pictures of the burning ruins of Ypres, and of Carisbrooke Castle. The names on the scroll are : Sergt Jesse Mills, Coldstream Guards; Br F Burton, R.G.A.; L/Cpl Frederick A Kemp, Coldstream Guards; Gr. Charles H Brown, R.F.A.; and Pte. Sidney W. Russell, 1/8th Hants." |
Corpl Fred Kemp From "The Police Review and Parade Gossip". CORPL. FRED KEMP, COLDSTREAM GUARDS Killed on August 27th. He was formerly a Constable at Cowes, and is the third member of the Isle of Wight Constabulary to lose his life in the present war. Portrait block by kind permission of the "Southampton and District Pictorial" (from the issue dated Oct 4, 1918) |
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