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.
Read more The Life Story Of A popular Victorian Police Constable.
Read more Staff Sergeant 22022 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, Regiment.
Read more Private L/11522 Middlesex Regiment taken prisoner of war but escaped and awarded the Military Medal. Later Lance Corporal P/16127 Military Foot Police.
Read more Lance Corporal 16314, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards who was Killed in Action on the 14th March 1917.
Read more The story of the Mounted from its reinstatement after the First World War to its disbanding in 1928
Read more Concentrations of troops, internees or prisoners of war had a marked impact on the delivery of policing to communities in the various localities across Hertfordshire.
Read more An old Criminal Broadside transcribed.
Read more The murder in 1597 of a Gentleman by forcing a sheathed knife down his throat
Read more At Berkamsted Petty Sessions Nora Pheasant, of Long Marston, was charged under the Army Act with harbouring Corpl. Mackenzie, of the 12th Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers, knowing him to be a deserter.
Read more Details of Sergeant Halsey's career as well as a number of pictures.
Read more Two pictures of PC Alec Bowyer stationed at Tring Police Station in the 1920s and 1930s
Read more Details of the Hertfordshire Police Flying Club including photographs and a link to a Pathe newsreel from the nineteen fifties.
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