Having served as Private 3044 in the Grenadier Guardsman he joined the St. Albans City Police in 1898. He was recalled to the Colours on 13th November 1899 for the Boer War, serving as a Sergeant Drill Instructor in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He re-joined the Police and retired as a Constable.
Read more Boer War Veteran, Sergeant Hertfordshire Yeomanry and 2nd Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society This Week In History 4/2/1931 The 4th February 1931 saw the first motor patrol in St. Albans when a B.S.A. motor cycle combination was purchased and put into service. Many mechanical problems were experienced during the initial stages and thought had to be given to acquiring waterproof clothing for the officers on patrol. The ...
Read more Hertfordshire Police Historical Society. This Week In History. 8/1/1925 Commendation. The action of Constable Edward T Pennicott 152 “C” in stopping a runaway horse in Queens Road, Watford on Thursday, 1 January 1925, has been brought to the notice of the Chief Constable. The report shows that the constable to of acted promptly and with courage and the Chief ...
Read more 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers Orderly Room Sergeant Major
Read more Private 7863 2nd Battalion Scots Guards he was Killed in Action 7th December 1914.
Read more Gunner 19963 48th Battery Royal Garrison Artillery died of wounds on the 25th December 1915.
Read more Lance Corporal 16314, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards who was Killed in Action on the 14th March 1917.
Read more Chief Constable's house used as temporary Police Station.
Read more Hertfordshire Mercury, 26th January 1951 Court hears of incident on bus – ‘ Don’t have all these festivals’ , man told Fined £1, with £1.16/6 (£1.83p) costs , on a summons accusing him of behaving in a disorderly manner on a bus on November 4 , James Blanche (28) , machine operator , of 16 Edgars Court ...
Read more Inter-force cooperation prevented crime, and caught offenders
Read more Promotion and transfer for Hatfield Police Chief.
Read more Combined service of 74 years by three generations.
Read more Pictured is an Austin Cambridge registration HNK488C at the Ancient Briton traffic lights in St Albans. Standing next to the vehicle is Police Sergeant 734 Donald PEARSON.
Read more The story of the Mounted from its reinstatement after the First World War to its disbanding in 1928
Read more PC Charles Hagger gets there in the end: his promotion to sergeant is confirmed
Read more William Manning, 16, a boy with a history of criminal activity, is found guilty of breaking into a church. The sentence this time is 3 years in Borstal
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.
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