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You are here: Home>Date of Coverage (by year)>1915

1915

  • No motor-car licence
    No motor-car licence
    Alfred White was charged with driving a motor-car without a licence.
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  • No red light
    No red light
    James Howard, of White Hall Street, Tottenham, was fined 5 shillings for driving a horse and cart without displaying a red rear light on the cart.
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  • No sleep for two days
    No sleep for two days
    Walter Mansfield, of Flamstead End, summoned for not having proper control of two horses and wagon.
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  • No zeppelins in Hoddesdon
    No zeppelins in Hoddesdon
    John Walker (35), of no fixed abode, was summoned for driving a horse and cart without a light.
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  • Norman, Stanley Edmund, Police Constable.
    Norman, Stanley Edmund, Police Constable.
    Accidently killed whilst on active service when the Army truck he was driving collided with a train on a level crossing.
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  • North, Ernest, 14, Police Constable, St. Albans City Police.
    North, Ernest, 14, Police Constable, St. Albans City Police.
    Having served as Private 3044 in the Grenadier Guardsman he joined the St. Albans City Police in 1898. He was recalled to the Colours on 13th November 1899 for the Boer War, serving as a Sergeant Drill Instructor in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He re-joined the Police and retired as a Constable.
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  • Not invited to the wedding
    Not invited to the wedding
    Spurned brother summoned for using bad language.
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  • Obstructing the highway
    Obstructing the highway
    John Wright, 37, of the Folly, and William Lawrence, 29, of 4 Davies Street, greengrocers, were summoned for obstructing the highway.
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  • Obstructing the highway
    Obstructing the highway
    Edward Mascall and William Gunn, carters, of Hunsdon, were summoned for obstructing the highway at Hadham Cross, Much Hadham.
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  • Obstructing the police
    Obstructing the police
    William H. Hopkins, 63 Railway Street, was summoned for obstructing the police whilst in the execution of their duty.
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  • Offence Against Swine Fever Order
    Offence Against Swine Fever Order
    Thomas Tyler, of 'The Plough' public-house, Datchworth, was summoned for a contravention of the Movement of Swine Order.
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  • Officer fined for having bright lights
    Officer fined for having bright lights
    Lieut. George Sidney Richardson, whose address was given as the Newcastle Arms, Tuxford, Notts., was summoned for driving a motor-car with powerful headlights in contravention of the Defence of the Realm Regulations.
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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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  • Our German guest sent to prison
    Our German guest sent to prison
    At Bow Street Police Court on Friday, Henry Sonnet, 56, a German gardener of Old Cross, Hertford, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for travelling more than five miles from his registered address without permit.
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  • Overloaded Horses
    Overloaded Horses
    Charles Knightley, of 19 Park Lane, Waltham Cross, was summoned for cruelty to two horses by overloading, and Percy George Box, of 1 Park Lane, Waltham Cross, was summoned for causing the cruelty.
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  • Owen, Henry, Police Constable.
    Owen, Henry, Police Constable.
    Grenadier Guardsman badly wounded
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  • Palmer, William Edward, Special Constable.
    Palmer, William Edward, Special Constable.
    Killed in Action in Italy having previously been wounded in North Africa.
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  • Parked horse and cart
    Parked horse and cart
    Charles Miller of Barwick, Standon, was summoned for leaving a horse and cart upon the highway for an unreasonable time
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  • Parker, Harold Edgar, 302, Police Constable, Sergeant.
    Parker, Harold Edgar, 302, Police Constable, Sergeant.
    Corporal M2104359 Royal Army Service Corps
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  • Pearce, Charles Frederick William, 29, Police Constable.
    Pearce, Charles Frederick William, 29, Police Constable.
    Royal Field Artillery wounded
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  • Pearman, Charles Henry, 11, Police Constable.
    Pearman, Charles Henry, 11, Police Constable.
    Boer War Veteran Private 4152 16th (Queens) Lancers, Section B Reservist, Lance Corporal P/8281 Military Mounted Police. The son and father of a Hertfordshire Police Officers.
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  • Pegram, Leonard Thomas
    Pegram, Leonard Thomas
    Two young soldiers were brought before the Ware Bench on a charge of murdering Leonard Pegram.
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  • Penal servitude for an old offender
    Penal servitude for an old offender
    George Cox (46), pleaded guilty to stealing five blankets, two ground sheets, and two pairs of boots, the property of the Secretary of State for War.
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  • Penal servitude for cutting wife's throat
    Penal servitude for cutting wife's throat
    William Varsey (19), a gardener, was charged with feloniously wounding Sarah Varney, his wife, with intent to kill her.
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