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  • A Division Officers c. 1910
    A Division Officers c. 1910
    Can you help identify the unknown faces?
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  • Can anyone help identify this Herts Police Officer ?
    Can anyone help identify this Herts Police Officer ?
    This photo was in an album my grandmother had. She grew up in Bishop’s Stortford but I don’t remember her ever telling me who this man was. Can anyone provide any information, maybe based on the uniform / collar number ?
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  • Cook, John W. 323 or 326, Police Constable.
    Cook, John W. 323 or 326, Police Constable.
    Lance Corporal P/2128 Military Mounted Police - if anyone has any information which would identify this man please add a comment at the end of the Post
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  • Day, Percy Edward, 14, War Reserve Police Constable.
    Day, Percy Edward, 14, War Reserve Police Constable.
    Percy Edward Day was a Police officer in the Woodhall area of Welwyn Garden City during the Second World War. He was my grandfather and lived in Holywell Road, then Twelve Acres. I don’t know when he joined the police or when he left but my dad and some of my dads cousins talk of him during ...
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  • Eynsham Hall Training Centre, Witney, Oxon.
    Eynsham Hall Training Centre, Witney, Oxon.
    Photo of the District Police Training Academy at Eynsham Hall, Witney, in 2015.
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  • Hadder, Arthur John and Hadder, William.
    Hadder, Arthur John and Hadder, William.
    Can you help with more information ?
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  • Headquarters Hatfield Probationers October 1920
    Headquarters Hatfield Probationers October 1920
    All eleven Constables have been identified but it has not been possible to put a name to every face. If you can identify a face please add a comment at the end of this post.
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  • Hussey, William Henry, 306, Police Constable.
    Hussey, William Henry, 306, Police Constable.
    Hello, I have been researching my great uncle William Henry Hussey for some time now, with some fascinating discoveries and although family history past down about his police career was brief, I was put in contact with Paul Watts and was overjoyed by his research into Williams life in the police. As many newspaper articles featured ...
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  • Luton Boro Police Annual Sports 1934
    Luton Boro Police Annual Sports 1934
    The Tug of War, Final Pull between 'C 'Division Watford and Luton Borough Police at Wardown Park.
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  • Mystery policeman group photo
    Mystery policeman group photo
    The attached photo is believed to contain a family member but who? I have several policemen in the family but none that I can trace to being in the Hertfordshire Police which I believe this group belong to. Many years ago my mother was told the uniforms suggest an era of 1910-1934. Some of the collar ...
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  • Owen, Henry, Police Constable.
    Owen, Henry, Police Constable.
    Grenadier Guardsman badly wounded
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  • PC 183 G or C ? WW1
    PC 183 G or C ? WW1
    I not sure if the PC’s number is 183 C or 183 G.
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  • Police Box
    Police Box
    Hello I was born in 1946 in Normandy Road (previously “Union Lane”) and lived there until 1963. I well remember a Police Box situated at the junction of Dickens Close and Normandy Road. It was a “cubic” shape with a door in the centre and two small recesses either side of the door. I believe one was a Police ...
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  • Police Sports Team
    Police Sports Team
    Do you know anyone in this picture?
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  • Potter, Charles, 319, Police Constable.
    Potter, Charles, 319, Police Constable.
    Trooper 3696 2nd Life Guards and Private in Royal Army Service Corps. Not positively identified - are you related to this man? Can you help?
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  • Riley Patrol Cars
    Riley Patrol Cars
    I had been studying the history of Hertfordshire police cars for many years and was not aware that the force had ever used Rileys. However, in 2015 I was sent some photos by Jean Campkin, the widow of the late PC Ron Petts showing Ron with some police cars. One of them shows a Riley ...
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  • Special Constable?
    Special Constable?
    Found this old picture and I think my grandfather is 1st on the left back row. I didn’t know he was a special constable but this uniform appears to show he was. Where would I be able to find more information to confirm this. His name was Ernest Charles Bunker and he lived in Watford ...
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  • Special Constables - Jacob Monk
    Special Constables - Jacob Monk
    Request from family member looking for information on her Grandfather
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  • Stout, Sarah
    Stout, Sarah
    A story of love, or unrequited love. The accused subsequently rising to a Circuit Judge. Murder or Suicide ?
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  • Taylor, Albert Edward, 195 and 308, Police Constable.
    Taylor, Albert Edward, 195 and 308, Police Constable.
    5th Battalion Royal Fusiliers - If anyone has any information about this Police Soldier please add a comment at the end of the post. Thank you.
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  • The Queen's Coronation 1953
    The Queen's Coronation 1953
    Were you or did you know a Hertfordshire Police Officer who took part in the Coronation in London or later at Colnbrook? If so please share your memories here. If you can add any first names to the nominal roll please click on "add a comment about this page" at the end of the post.
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  • Traffic officers, North Watford
    Traffic officers, North Watford
    Request for Help. The page shows a number of group pictures at North Watford Traffic Base. With some details of officers' names. The photos are not of the best quality and the owner is trying to trace the originals
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  • Unknown PC or War Reserve PC
    Unknown PC or War Reserve PC
    A Police FB group in Northants was seeking to identify a policeman pictured with a crashed B17 bomber, under the impression it was at the home base: Grafton Underwood. In fact the bomber had turned back on a raid on Schweinfurt 24/3/1944 and crashed trying to land at Nuthampstead. The pic of the officer and the ...
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  • Use of photograph in police work in 1864
    Use of photograph in police work in 1864
    In June 1864 an elegantly dressed lady using the name "Amelia Allen" attended a social event in Aylesbury and was arrested for picking pockets. Her portrait was taken by Thomas Vipond.
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