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 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 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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