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Cambridge City & Boro


.Insp Quarrie Cambridgeshire 1894 period	Cambridgeshire Officers Senate House on 25^th June 1946 PCs Ellis, Eastick , Edwards, Bloxham	WILLIAM JAMES COLMAN, born 30/05/1884, LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. JOINED 03/04/1911 REQUIRED TO RESIGN 01/12/1913.MARRIED WITH ONE CHILD ON JOINING5' 11, FAIR COMPLEXION, BROWN HAIR, BLUE EYES, TATTOOS ON CHEST, SCAR RIGHT SIDE OF HEAD & CHIN LAST EMPLOYED BY THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY AT LONDON (8 MONTHS) SERVED 8 YEARS IN THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED IN THE GREAT YARMOUTH POLICE BUT HAD NOT ADMITTED SO WHEN HE APPLIED TO JOIN CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH. (REASON HE WAS REQUIRED TO RESIGN)

PC 9 PC47

Pc 9 and Pc 47 are wearing uniforms from about the 1870 - 1880 period. The number 47 came in about 1878 and was used as a starting number for new recruits (officers changed numbers every time they progressed a class in Cambridge Boro for a 20-30 year period).

PC56 PC58

Pc 56 and 58 these numbers first commenced in July 1900.. I believe Pc 56 is JAMES ARTHUR FELL

joined 23/09/1901.

Pc 58 is more difficult the following are all Pc 58 between the dates given he looks quite tall so I have put the heights of the officers in as I have them.

WILLIAM  MOBBS 09/07/1900 - 13/03/1901 5'9"
HAROLD  SNELLING 04/10/1901 - 06/01/1904 6'2"
WILLIAM  AUDLEY 16/05/1904 - 22/08/1904 5'8"
FREDERICK  MATTHEWS 26/09/1904 - 15/02/1905 5'10"
FREDERICK  CHAPMAN 21/02/1905-til 1930 5'10"

Cambridge Boro Police at Peterborough Show July 1895

Back Row Pc’s 33 ? 7 Churchman 23 Lilley 37 ? 32 ? 10 L. Savidge 25 42 ?

Seated Pc26 Sword Sgt ? Insp ? Sgt 2 Simmonds Pc31Wright

Front Pc48 Witham Civ.? Pc11 Simmons

Taken from the Peterborough & Huntingdonshire Standard Saturday June 9^th 1895

At the Watch Committee of the Town Council on Friday the Chief Constable applied to be allowed to engage extra police for the forthcoming visit at H.R.H the Prince of Wales to the Agricultural Show and he was authorized to engage 15 additional men. On the second day of the show, and four for the other two days of the show, the Agricultural Society paying for the police required by them on the ground. The question of engaging two mounted police to lead the Royal carriage through the city was discussed and the question adjourned.

Cambridge Boro Winners Police Athletic Challenge Cup

1933-34-36-37-38

Athletic Team 1938

PC L Fowler, PC C Meyer, PC H Barker,PC S Ashley,PC W Hayden, Sgt O Cornwell, PC R Lewis, PC C Kirkland.

PC F Houghton, PC F Boon, PC W Cudworth R.J. Pearson Esq. O.B.E. Sgt. H Ives, Sgt. W Silk, PC T Abbott

(Sports Captain) ( Chief Constable) (Hon. Sec.)

PC B Lewis PC R Bloxham


Who is it ?	Frank (Snowy) Newman on motorcycle FCE 176 taken outside the Police House Castle Camps about 1948. (Courtesy Cambs NARPO)	Triumph Twenty-One 833 DCE Linton (Courtesy Cambs NARPO)


Ford V8 Piot DCE 849 & War Reserve Officer 104 Bert Suckling Castle Hill Cambridge


PC62 Cambridgeshire	PC8Cambridgeshire	PC19Cambridgeshire