Having served as Bombardier 79907 in the Royal Artillery he joined the Hertford County Constabulary in 1898. Recalled to the Colours on 9th October 1899 he served for nearly two years in the Boer War before re-joining the Constabulary retiring in 1923 as a Superintendent.
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 Extra Police required to control expected crowds in Cambridge in 1903
Read more Section B Reservist, Bombardier 205953 Royal Horse Artillery
Read more Sergeant 12821, No. 3 Company 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards who was Killed in Action on the 25th September 1918.
Read more Newspaper report of the Funeral of Sergeant Beckwith in Bishops Stortford in 1915
Read more Edward Mansell, a nurseryman of Hadham Road, was summoned for being found to be in unlawful possession of army stores.
Read more What was it like to be a Constable in Bishop's Stortford in the middle of the First World War? The first volume of the Bishop's Stortford Archive has been prepared for digitisation (The logbook of Pc Elberton from July 1915 to April 1916)
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