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  • Dolley, Herbert (Bertie) George, 29, Police Constable.
    Dolley, Herbert (Bertie) George, 29, Police Constable.
    Gunner 19963 48th Battery Royal Garrison Artillery died of wounds on the 25th December 1915.
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  • Clarke, Frederick, 308, Police Constable.
    Clarke, Frederick, 308, Police Constable.
    Private 105809, 1st/1st, Hertfordshire Yeomanry who died of Dysentery and Malaria on the 28th November 1918.
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  • Appleby, Stanley Ralph, 101, Police Constable.
    Appleby, Stanley Ralph, 101, Police Constable.
    Lance Corporal 16314, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards who was Killed in Action on the 14th March 1917.
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  • Royalty Visits Watford
    Royalty Visits Watford
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  • Special Constable Stanley Charles Palmer
    Special Constable Stanley Charles Palmer
    A life of Military and Police Service
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  • Johnson, Robert St. Patrick, 84, Police Constable, Sergeant,
    Johnson, Robert St. Patrick, 84, Police Constable, Sergeant,
    Death of well-known Sergeant
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  • Baldock Sergeant, William Baker, retires - and other transfers.
    Baldock Sergeant, William Baker, retires - and other transfers.
    Retirements and transfers of several officers.
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  • Kindness indeed
    Kindness indeed
    Gordon thanked the magistrates for his three months sentence
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  • Hertfordshire Police Minstrel Troupe
    Hertfordshire Police Minstrel Troupe
    Concert given on February 3rd 1922
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  • Mounted Section
    Mounted Section
    The story of the Mounted from its reinstatement after the First World War to its disbanding in 1928
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  • A well deserved award
    A well deserved award
    All officers are awarded a pay rise, plus the honorarium for the Acting Chief Constable
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  • A Watford policeman, a Guards reservist, is killed in action
    A Watford policeman, a Guards reservist, is killed in action
    Sgt Kendall, a Watford Police reservist for the Grenadier Guards, was killed in action in Belgium
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  • An army deserter, a gypsy, being buried alive, stealing, and running away !
    An army deserter, a gypsy, being buried alive, stealing, and running away !
    Pte William Sale, along with another, stole a horse and trap, together with rugs, harness and boots.
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  • Locations of military significance in Hertfordshire in the Great War
    Locations of military significance in Hertfordshire in the Great War
    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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  • Theft of straw at Rickmansworth
    Theft of straw at Rickmansworth
    Ezekiel Franklin (30), dealer, was indicted for stealing a quantity of straw, at Rickmansworth, on October 25; also with receiving two sacks of stolen oats, at Bushey, on October 2.
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  • Insufficient evidence
    Insufficient evidence
    A violent drunken man or a fallen drunken woman?
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  • Digby, George Walter, 119, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector.
    Digby, George Walter, 119, Police Constable, Sergeant, Inspector.
    Retirement after 25 years service.
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  • The canon's motor car...and a scarf
    The canon's motor car...and a scarf
    Man charged with stealing motor car - and a scarf!
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  • Stealing to pay a debt doesn't mitigate the offence
    Stealing to pay a debt doesn't mitigate the offence
    Charlotte Croker forged her landlady's signature, stole money from the latter's post office account, but was caught. She was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment.
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  • Cooking the books !
    Cooking the books !
    James Heatson was charged with falsifying the books to the sum of about £2000. The case was adjourned, and the defendant was remanded in custody, to appear at Quarter Sessions.
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  • A second husband whilst the first is serving abroad !
    A second husband whilst the first is serving abroad !
    Silvia Annie Crampton was charged with bigamy.
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  • Plain-clothes constable assaulted
    Plain-clothes constable assaulted
    Husband and wife, sleeping in a lorry, charged with assaulting a constable.
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  • Drunk in charge at the time of the crash
    Drunk in charge at the time of the crash
    The horse cart and the taxi collided violently, and the horse was killed. The Police Court ruled that, if the defendant was sent to the front, he would hear nothing further.
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  • Lady Russell would not comply with the Order, to her cost !
    Lady Russell would not comply with the Order, to her cost !
    Lady Russell vowed not to plough up her field, contrary to the Order made but, contrary to evidence given by prominent defence witnesses, the Bench imposed the maximum sentence for the offence.
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