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 Edwin joined the Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1924 and served initially at Baldock. In 1936 following surgery he was deemed to be unfit for Police Duties by the Force Surgeon and was medically retired.
Read more Served throughout the Great War in Gallipoli and Palestine. He was wounded. On discharge from the Army he joined the Hertford County Constabulary.
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History Saturday 13 May 1871 The Herts. Advertiser and St Albans Times There being again but little business before the Magistrates at the St. Albans Liberty Petty Sessions on Saturday last, the only case of interest being a charge of assault against Police Constable Hunt, of Sandridge, who, it appears from the ...
Read more Private 60565 Royal Army Medical Corps. Died in a motorcycle accident 1927.
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.
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