Built to the order of the Master-General of the Ordnance. Up to 1844 security at Royal Arsenal was provided by the Royal Artillery. Guard duties were then shared with ;the Metropolitan Police who took full responsibility in 1861. In 1927 the War Department Constabulary, now the Ministry of Defence Police, took over.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Royal Arsenal Main Guardhouse
The Main Guardhouse, 1788. Built to the order of the Master-General of the O...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Henry James Edmund Kippin was born on 15 January 1882 at Perrin's Court, Hampstead, the eldest son and the second of the ten children of Edmund Kippin (1852-1916) and Letitia Kippin née Cook (1856-...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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