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.
Read more Many readers will recall the 1984 Coal Strike but will not have realised that the Hertford County Constabulary were called upon 70 years earlier.
Read more Horse Keeper 13752 Army Veterinary Corps, Gunner 197240 Royal Field Artillery, Sergeant 300554 14th Tank Corps
Read more Section B Reservist, Guardsman 32202 Grenadier Guards
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Read more Four men were summoned for not showing the required lights on their vehicles.
Read more Charles Upson injured when his bike brake didn't work.
Read more PC Berry noticed a dull red light within a house that he was passing. A ceiling was smouldering. His prompt attention saved a building from much damage, but didn't save the parrots.
Read more Charles Cockman (18) and Herbert Howard (9), of Rye Park, were charged with stealing apples value 3d.,
Read more George Everitt (33), of Roydon, hay carter, was summoned for riding asleep on a cart
Read more William Cheek (36), a plumber, was charged with stealing 96 lbs of old lead from Haileybury College.
Read more George Dodd, 25 and John Watts, 25, labourers, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary at Watford.
Read more Story and photographs of father and son both of whom served in Hertfordshire Constabulary in the late 19th century. The father lived until he was 81 while the son succumbed to T.B. at the age of 32.
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