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spoons
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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 Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: Ayr, Ayrshire Constabulary and Kilmarnock Burgh Police |
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Not listed on UKNIWM
Located in the entrance to Ayr Police Station (a less than pretty, modern building). OS Map Ref NS 340 224
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spoons
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Details and photo sent to UKNIWM today.
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jamiemcginlay
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Location: Glasgow
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| Among sculptor Alexander Carrick's business papers at the National Monument Record of Scotland Office in Edinburgh, Manuscript Collection 22, there is the copy of a letter from Carrick to the Chief Constable regarding his work on this memorial which he described as being Sicilian Marble. |
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DelBoy
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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Location: The County of Angus
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 3:50 pm Post subject: Memorial Transcription |
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IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN
OF
THE AYRSHIRE CONSTABULARY
AND KILMARNOCK BURGH POLICE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE TWO WORLD WARS
1914 - 1918
James Richmond
William J. Ross
WalterHeeps
William Kirkland
William Kirkwood
Allan Gobson
John R. Kerr
John McLean
Archibald McLachlan
William Cooper
Donald MacKenzie
Alexander Ritchie
Angus Cameron
Peter Malcolm
James S. Craib
1939 - 1945
Albert L. Carruthers
Duncan R. Kerr
Wilfrid F. Simkin
William Steel
Andrew Stephen
John A. Barclay |
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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009
Posts: 924
Location: near Arbroath Angus
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:09 pm Post subject: ayrshire constabulary |
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Ayr Burgh Police had its own police force from 1845 until the merger with Ayrshire Constabulary on 16th may 1968 . Ayr Burgh Police had then 112 officers . I will see my friend who is ex Ayr Burgh and also ex Ayrshire constabulary/Strathclyde Police to see if Ayr Burgh had a war memorial for its WW1 and WW2 officers ...
Kilmarnock Burgh Police was in existance from 1846 until it merged with Ayrshire constabulary on 16th may 1968 (same merger as Ayr Burgh Police )
Ayrshire Constabulary from 1839 to merging to become part of Strathclyde Police on 16th May 1975
Dont know which Chief Constable it was who Mr Carrick wrote to
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stuartn
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| This is now WMR, ex UKNIWM, memorial 56949 |
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dadfak
Joined: 16 Nov 2009
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| This memorial is not the one designed by Carrick. It was in the original Ayrshire Constabulary HQ in Charlotte Street, Ayr and was white marble. It is now lost, having disappeared sometime between the amalgamation of the county and burgh forces in 1968 and the establishment of Strathclyde Police in 1975, when the new county HQ was built in King Street, Ayr, and the present memorial was sited there, commemorating the fallen from both the former Ayrshire Constabulary and Kilmarnock Burgh forces. It is now thought that the original memorial was lost during the removal of a chimney complex in the former HQ building some time after it was vacated in 1975. |
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