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Document collection

Here you can explore an archive of Hertfordshire police documents dating from the First World War. The documents record incidents and duties in the working lives of the constables and sergeants.

You can explore the archive by type of incident, by police officer and by town or village.  You can also search the document collection.

  • Duty registers

    Duty registers (2)

  • Guardroom Occurrence Books

    Guardroom Occurrence Books (6)

  • Officers Journals

    Officers Journals (32)

Search the documents

You can carry out an advanced search of the documents by search term.

Search the document collection

Incidents in the documents
  • Day to Day (955)
  • Theft (218)
  • Animals (211)
  • Lost and found (171)
  • Military (72)
  • Special events (67)
  • Drunkeness (62)
  • Missing (61)
  • Welfare (56)
  • Assault (36)

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Towns and villages
  • Bishops Stortford (1332)
  • Albury (151)
  • Buntingford (83)
  • Sawbridgeworth (79)
  • Much Hadham (71)
  • Little Hadham (62)
  • St Albans (59)
  • Cambridge (49)
  • Watford (48)
  • Harpenden (44)

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Police officers
  • PC 289 A G Springett (398)
  • PS 164 A Elderton (231)
  • PC 34 Bolter (177)
  • PS 43 Beckwith (172)
  • PC 5 J N Ellwood (138)
  • PC 199 J Briden (136)
  • PC 50 Edwin Gatward (119)
  • PC 202 Henry E Day (115)
  • PC 160 Robert Milton (100)
  • PC 236 John Davies (100)

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