Sergeant 12821, No. 3 Company 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards who was Killed in Action on the 25th September 1918.
Read more Private Grenadier Guards, Lance Sergeant Guards Machine Gun Regiment.
Read more Sergeant P/2139 Military Mounted Police, Mentioned In Despatches, the last Hertfordshire Police Soldier to re-join the Force.
Read more Constable John Knight joined Hertfordshire Constabulary on the 27th day of November 1889 and served until the 26th March 1919. The picture in which he is seated was taken on or about his retirement. In 1911, Constable Knight was one of 13 officers in the Constabulary to receive the King’s Coronation Medal. He can be seen standing second ...
Read more Died from head injuries received in a motorcycle accident whilst on active service.
Read more Corporal 2551 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, Corporal P/15106 Military Mounted Police
Read more 1st Dragoons later Sergeant Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Read more Charles Day, 24, and Edward Swallow, 25, assaulted PC Lawrence severely.
Read more The son of a Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector he died when his Wellington bomber crash landed during a training flight, killing all on board.
Read more Joining the Hertford County Constabulary in 1911 he was recalled to the Colours on the 4th August 1914 re-joining the Suffolk Regiment. Wounded in the hand he was discharged from the Army and re-joined the Police in December 1914. He retired in 1936.
Read more From 1943 he served in the RAF as a Flight Engineer on a Lancaster bomber, shot down in 1944 whilst returning from a mission he evaded the Germans for 7 months until he was liberated by advancing Allied soldiers. After the war he served in both the Metropolitan and Nottingham City Police before transferring to Hertfordshire.
Read more James Lucas was a wealthy, eccentric, Victorian land-owner who developed a paranoid fear of his relatives and barricaded himself inside the family mansion. He remained there in a state of siege for 25 years.
Read more Sergeant 4885 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment served in India, Drill Instructor Sergeant 9th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Read more Trooper 2nd Life Guards, Acting Bombardier Royal Garrison Artillery
Read more Lance Corporal P/2346 Military Mounted Police
Read more Martin Szaj served for 30 years from 1963 and on this occasion he talked us through his hard schedule and we also hear an anecdote from his days of rural surveillance….
Read more Trooper 3748 1st Life Guards, Gunner 200599 Royal Garrison Artillery
Read more Gunner 99378 Royal Horse Artillery Anti-Aircraft Lance Bombardier 191687 Royal Garrison Artillery Anti-Aircraft
Read more Killed in Action in Italy having been previously wounded whilst serving in North Africa.
Read more Two photos of Police Cadets (circa 1956) at the annual event held at Pendley Manor, Tring. (Owned at the time by the well known Show Jumping commentator Dorian Williams). One photo is part of a parade inspection by the Lord Lieutenant of the County. I am on the left next to Denis Smoker. Tony Kiff is in ...
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