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You are here: Home>Police History>The Great War>Soldiers Who Won Gallantry Awards But Joined Herts Police After WW1

Soldiers Who Won Gallantry Awards But Joined Herts Police After WW1

Thanks must go to Mick Hall whose research of the Police Standing Committee minute books identified four of the men in this category and many others on this site.

  • Bailiff, Thomas Alexander, 58, Police Constable.
    Bailiff, Thomas Alexander, 58, Police Constable.
    A Private in the 1st/1st Hertfordshire Regiment and briefly the Sherwood Foresters he was awarded the DCM for saving wounded Guardsmen at Festubert. He was wounded at least three times but survived the war. Life after the war was full of sadness and personal tragedy. He joined the Hertford County Constabulary in 1921 and resigned in 1925.
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  • Camp, Abel, 138, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, Deputy Chief Constable, Acting Chief Constable. 1943 - 1945
    Camp, Abel, 138, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, Deputy Chief Constable, Acting Chief Constable. 1943 - 1945
    The sixth (Acting) Chief Constable. He served throughout the Great War he was wounded and awarded a Silver War Badge. On discharge from the Army he joined the Hertford County Constabulary and quickly rose through the ranks.
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  • Copeman, Thomas, 50, Constable.
    Copeman, Thomas, 50, Constable.
    Served throughout the Great War in Gallipoli and Palestine. He was wounded. On discharge from the Army he joined the Hertford County Constabulary.
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  • Cross, John, 227, Police Constable and Cross, Stanley Jack, 62, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector.
    Cross, John, 227, Police Constable and Cross, Stanley Jack, 62, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector.
    These are the life stories of a father and son who both served in the Hertford County Constabulary. John Cross enlisted in the Army in 1915 as a Section B Army Reservist but was never mobilised his son Stanley also enlisted in 1915 as Guardsman 24497 in the Grenadier Guards aged 15. Having been sent to France his true age was revealed and he was sent back to the UK. He returned to France in 1918 where he was wounded and was awarded the Military Medal. After the War he joined the Police.
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  • Oliver, Thomas, MM, 339, Constable
    Oliver, Thomas, MM, 339, Constable
    Thomas Oliver preferred to be known as John or Jack joined the Army after the outbreak of WW1 aged 16 years. Whilst serving with the Lancashire Fusiliers he was awarded a Military Medal. Surviving the war he joined the Hertfordshire Constabulary becoming one of the last Mounted Police Officers. He served for 38 years the last 21 at High Wych.
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  • Spicer, Ernest Bernard, 68 Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector, Superintendent.
    Spicer, Ernest Bernard, 68 Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector, Superintendent.
    Served in the Army during WW1, enlisted as a Private and de-mobilised as a Captain - awarded the M.M. and the M.C. with a Mentioned in Despatches and awarded a wound stripe. Appointed as a Constable in Hertford County Constabulary in 1920 retired as a Superintendent in 1954.
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  • Watson, Harry, 123, Police Constable.
    Watson, Harry, 123, Police Constable.
    Served throughout the Great War in France. On discharge from the Army he joined the Hertford County Constabulary.
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  • Whyman, William Henry, MM, 319, Constable
    Whyman, William Henry, MM, 319, Constable
    On the outbreak of WW1 he joined the 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. He fought at Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine being promoted to Colour Sergeant and awarded the Military Medal. On being demobbed he joined the Hertfordshire Constabulary and was commended 3 times by the St. Albans Coroner.
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