James Johnstone WALSH   

AKA James WALSH, Jim WALSH, Jimmy WALSH,  Jock WALSH   

* Nickname:  Jock WALSH   

Late of 38 Persic St, Belmore North, NSW  

Relations in ‘the job’   ?   

“possible” relation in ‘the job‘:    ?   

NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern  / Police Training College – Penrith / Belmore Barracks  Class #    ?  ?  ?   

New South Wales Police Force    

Regd. #  ‘Q‘ 9654   

For the purposes of this website ‘Q‘ represents those Police joining between 1 March 1862 ( commencement of NSWPF ) – 23 February 1915 ( Commencement of NSWPF current numbering system )

Rank:  Commenced Training at  ? Police Academy on Monday   ? ? ?  ( aged   ?  years,   ?  months,   ?  days )    

Probationary Constable – appointed 2 May 1913  ( aged  29  years,  8  months,  26  days )

Constable – appointed   ? ? ?   

Constable 1st Class – appointed   ? ? ? ( No )

Detective – appointed   ? ? ?  ( No )

Senior Constable – appointed   ? ? ?  ( N/A )

Leading Senior Constable – appointed   ? ? ? ( N/A )      

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed   ? ? ? ( N/A )      

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 1 June 1927

Final Rank: =  Sergeant 2nd Class  

Stations:  Granville ( 18 Division ), Mittagong, Police Barracks – Bourke St Redfern, Glebe ( 1914 ), ( War Duty 12 May 1915 – 1919 ),  Darlinghurst ( 3 Division )( 1935 ), Cootamundra ( 1936 ), Police Barracks – Drill Instructor,  North Sydney ( 6 Division )( 1940 )      

Service ( From Training Date ) period: From Friday 2 May 1913     to     6 August 1943  =    30  years, 3 months, 4 days Service   

Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police:  From:  Friday 2 May 1913     to     6 August 1943  =    30  years, 3 months, 4 days Service   

 Time in Retirement from Police:  3  years,  4  months, 16  days

Age at Retirement / Leaving: =     60  years,   0  months,   0  days    

World War I

Australian Imperial Force

Regiment:                                 Australian Imperial Force ( A.I.F. )  8th Reinforcements, 1st Field Artillery Brigade of Enmore, NSW

Enlisted:                                    12 May 1915

Service #                                    4834

Rank:                                           Sgt

Embarkation:                            from Melbourne, Victoria aboard HMAT Makarini on 15 September 1915.

Age at embarkation:               ?

Occupation:                               Police Constable

Address:                                       ?

Next of kin:                                  ?

Religion:                                       ?

Single / Married:                        ?

Returned to Australia:             1 April 1919 with the 12th Field Artillery Brigade.

Date of Discharge:                     ?

Awards:                                        ?

Awards:  No Find on the Australian Honours system – however:- 

Scottish Police Coronation Medal  – 1911

Imperial Service Medal – 1943

 

Born:  6 August 1883 in Lesswade Midlothian, Scotland   

Died on:  Sunday 22 December 1946   

Age:  63  years,  4  months, 16  days  

 

Organ Donor:  Y / N /  ?

 

Cause:   ?

Event location:  ?

Event / Diagnosis date:  ?

 

Funeral date:  Tuesday 24 December 1946 @ 11am 

Funeral location:   Rookwood Crematorium, Lidcombe, NSW  

 

LIVE STREAM? N/A   

Wake location:   ?

Wake date:    ???

Funeral Parlour:  Walters & Son, Dulwich Hill, NSW  

 

Buried at:  Cremated at Rookwood Crematorium, Lidcombe, NSW

 

Grave Location:  Section:          Row:  ?         Plot:  ? 

Grave GPS:  ?,       ?

 

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at:  ?

 

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( May 2026 )  

Jock is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED  

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When Constable James (Jock) Johnstone Walsh joined the Australian army in 1915 at the age of 31 he was already an experienced soldier.

His first venture into military service took place in his home town Edinburgh in 1899 when he was not yet 16 and still a growing lad. He misstated his age to join the Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders but was discharged after two months when his true age was discovered.

In 1901 he enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery where he lasted for ten months before decamping to join the 31st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, known as Fincastle’s Horse, a battalion raised for service in the Second Anglo-Boer War.

Back in Edinburgh after the end of the South African war he enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery. This time he lasted longer ‘with the colours’, serving for eight years including four years in India and one year in Aden.

He then worked briefly as a coal miner in Auchterderran in the County of Fife, Scotland, before joining the Edinburgh City Police in April 1911. Four months later he resigned, having answered a recruiting advertisement for the Shanghai Municipal Police.

His Edinburgh service had coincided with the coronation of King George V and the King’s visit to Edinburgh in July 1911, so he was entitled to receive the Scottish Police Coronation Medal.

Jock Walsh’s Shanghai adventure as a probationary constable was terminated in April 1912.

He sailed for Sydney, joining the NSW Police within a week of arrival.

He also joined the NSW Football Association (soccer) and quickly established a reputation as a talented fullback for the police, chosen to represent New South Wales in an interstate match against Tasmania held in Sydney in July 1912.

He was based at the police barracks in Bourke Street, Redfern.

Three years after his arrival in Sydney Jock Walsh enlisted as a gunner in the 8th Field Artillery Reinforcements and was made acting sergeant almost immediately.

He embarked for Egypt in September 1915 and in mid-November was on board Her Majesty’s Australian Transport ship Themistocles, headed for the Gallipoli peninsula, arriving more or less at the very moment the decision was being made to evacuate the Anzac and Suvla positions on the peninsula.

He was back in Alexandria for Christmas.

By June 1916 Walsh was in France, appointed Battery Sergeant Major.

In June 1917 he was promoted in the field to Regimental Sergeant Major and in November 1917 he was selected to be assistant instructor of the 1st Anzac Corps Artillery School. But this order was soon cancelled, after a court martial found him guilty of a disciplinary offence. He was reduced to Battery Sergeant Major and sent back into the field in Belgium before spending the final months of the war in France.

Walsh was insubordinate on occasion but his service in Belgium and France in the last year of the war earned him a mention in despatches in January 1919 and in the same month he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre.

In France, in February 1919, he also acquired one final ‘souvenir’ of the war, falling victim to the influenza pandemic that had been devastating the battlefields of Europe since 1918.

He was admitted to No 40 Stationery Hospital at Harfleur in Normandy before being transferred to the Endell Street Military Hospital in London.

From London he returned to Australia, listed as an invalid on the transport Shropshire, arriving home in May 1919.

He received his discharge from the AIF on 10 July 1919 and was back on duty with the NSW Police by the end of the month.

For the first few years after his return from war service Jock Walsh was based at Glebe Police Station in Sydney’s inner west, but on at least one occasion in March 1920 he was on duty at the Police Museum at the Depot in Bourke Street, Redfern, headquarters of the city police.

Here he acted as guide for a journalist named William Howarth, who later published a series of articles about the police museum’s collections.

Howarth’s first story began with Constable Walsh, describing him as a modest man, wearing his war service medals but not speaking of his experiences in battle.

It was one of Jock’s comrades who provided the journalist with those details.

As well as housing the museum, the Bourke Street Depot was the place where all new police recruits received their basic training.

For several years Jock Walsh was drill instructor at the Depot. It was a role that meant he was widely known among the force –his promotion from constable to sergeant in June 1927 was reported by the Sydney Evening News.

According to the News he was ‘a man of fine physique and one of the most popular officers in the metropolitan police force’.

For several years each graduating class received a photographic ‘souvenir’ of the depot comprising a group picture of the class and cameo pictures of the personalities associated with their training, including Sergeant J J Walsh.

Jock’s last cameo appearance in a ‘souvenir’ was in 1930.

In 1931 he was relieved of his duties as drill instructor for improper possession and supply of an automatic pistol.

Jock Walsh was often in trouble in the 1930s – he was placed on report more than once for misconduct or disobedience, suspended in rank and pay for three months on one occasion, for twelve months on another, and eventually rusticated for a few years to Cootamundra in the south-west of New South Wales.

But he managed to rehabilitate himself and by late 1938 was back in Sydney and active in the NSW Police sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers’ Imperial League of Australia.

For the annual police carnival in February 1939 Walsh drilled a squad of returned soldier and sailor police in a display with fixed bayonets.

The local press reported that this was a display that had not been seen before in Australia but that it was a regular part of a Highland Brigade review. It was also, according The Referee, a sporting newspaper, the only form of bayonet exercise during the South African war and one that all old South African soldiers would remember.

Hardly surprising then that an old drill sergeant with Jock Walsh’s background should introduce the exercise to a police carnival.

In 1943, on the eve of his retirement from the NSW Police, Jock Walsh was recommended for the Imperial Service Medal, awarded for meritorious service over more than 25 years.

He received the medal in a ceremony at Government House Sydney in August 1944.

He died at the age of 63 in 1946.

https://vernon.mhnsw.au/objects/42712/photograph

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The Daily Telegraph ( Sydney )    Friday 10 March 1933    p7

Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954),

Saturday 29 June 1940,   page 6

RESCUED CHILD FROM ALSATIAN

Daily Mirror ( Sydney )  Friday 26 December 1941    p7

Edinburgh City Police – PC 276 B James Johnstone Walsh

Edinburgh City Police

New South Wales Police – Australia

Queen’s South Africa Medal

1915 -15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

King George V Coronation (Scottish Police) Medal, 1911

Imperial Service Medal

Croix de Guerre (Belgian)

PC James Johnstone Walsh

The following is a fascinating story of a young man born in Straiton near Edinburgh in 1883, who worked as a Shale and Coal Miner, lied about his age and served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders until he was found out. He then enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery, (again giving a false age), went on the ‘run’ and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry (in his mother’s surname) and served in the Boer War.

On his return to the United Kingdom, he then joined the Royal Garrison Artillery (still in his mother’s surname) and served for eight years in India and Aden.

He joined Edinburgh City Police in 1911, just long enough to earn the Coronation (Scottish Police) Medal, 1911. He then joined the Shanghai Municipal Police in China for a few months before being appointed to the New South Wales Police in Australia in 1912.

During World War 1, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served in France and Belgium with the Field Artillery. He returned to Australia with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1.

He then had a successful career in the New South Wales Police and retired in 1943. He was awarded the Imperial Service Medal in 1944.

The early years

James (Johnstone) Walsh was born on 6 August 1883 at Straiton in the Parish of Liberton in the County of Edinburgh. His father Thomas Walsh, was a Labourer at the Oil Works and his mother, Agnes Walsh, Maiden Surname Johnstone.

The name ‘Johnstone’ is not recorded on his birth certificate but it will be seen when the rest of his story is added, Johnstone was a surname used by James Walsh from time to time in his early life.

His parents were married on 3 September, 1872 at St Mungo’s Roman Catholic Chapel in Glasgow.

In the Census of 1881, his parents were recorded living at Straiton Cottar Houses at Liberton in the County of Edinburgh. The family consisted of Thomas, (36), born in Ireland, a Labourer in Oil Works, Agnes, (36), born in Uphall in West Lothian, Henry, (7), born in Glasgow, Thomas, (4), born in Glasgow and Mary, (1), born in Straiton in Liberton. There were also three lodgers, two of whom were born in Ireland, at least one of whom is a relative.

In the Census of 1891, the family were living at Dalmeny Oil Company Houses at 3 Railway Row, Dalmeny in Midlothian. All of the family are still alive and also recorded were James Walsh, (7) and George Walsh, (6).

On 9 June, 1891, Agnes Johnstone or Walsh, (46), married to Thomas Walsh of the Oil Works Cottages in Dalmeny in the County of Linlithgow, died there. Her husband registered her death.

On leaving school, James Walsh worked as a Shale Miner in the Lothians.

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

On 25 February, 1899, James Walsh claiming to be “18 Years and 6 months” enlisted for “7 years with the Colours and 5 with the Reserve” as Private 6866 at the Regimental Depot of ‘the Argylls’ in Stirling Castle. His ‘next of kin’ was listed as his father, “Thomas Walsh of 5 Tarbrax, Cobinshaw (in West Lothian, also then a Shale Mining area).

He was described as 5’, 3.5”, fresh complexion, blue eyes and light brown hair. Under ‘Marks and scars’ were “Scars upper lip, back of head, right upper eyebrow, left side of neck, over part of stomach and several each shin and on each knee”.

73 days later, his true age was discovered and he was discharged on 8 May, 1899.

Royal Marine Artillery

Undeterred, on 11 March, 1901, giving his date of birth as 6 August, 1882, he enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery (RMA) as Private 9389.

He appears in the Census of 1901 as a “Private, RMA” stationed at Eastney Barracks in Portsmouth in Hampshire, England.

Both entries on his RMA record his character and ability as “Very good” but the reason for discharge is given as “Run” which is naval parlance for ‘Absent without leave’. He was discharged on 14 January, 1902.

Imperial Yeomanry (Fincastle’s Horse)

In the meantime, on 7 January, 1902, he had enlisted as “James Johnstone” as Private 43514 in the 140^th Company (Fincastle’s Horse) of the 31st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. He was discharged on 26 October, 1902.

The medal roll of that unit dated 11 November, 1902 confirms ‘James Johnstone’s’ entitlement to the Queen’s South Africa (QSA) Medal with the clasps, ‘Cape Colony’ and ‘South Africa 1902’. The QSA is the first medal from left to right below.

Royal regiment of Artillery (Royal Garrison Artillery)

Upon his return to Edinburgh, on 4 March, 1903, he enlisted, (still using 6 August, 1882 as his date of birth and the name “James Johnstone), as Gunner 14745 in “the Royal Regiment of Artillery, (Royal Garrison Artillery). The scars noted on his record match those recorded in 1899.

There are 13 questions on his application to join the Army.

To question number 10, “Do you now belong to the Army, the Marines, the Militia, the Militia Reserve, the Royal Navy, the Volunteers, the Yeomanry, the Army Reserve, the Naval Reserve Force? If so, what Corps?”

He answered “No”.

To question number 11, “Have you ever served in the Army, the Marines, the Militia, the Militia Reserve, or the Royal Navy? If so, state which and cause of discharge.”

He answered “No”.

To number 12, “Have you truly stated the whole, if any, of your previous Service?”

He answered “Yes”.

He originally enlisted for “3 years with the Colours and 9 with the Reserve”. His description is similar to that of 1899 but his height is now “5’, 10”. He later extended his service with the colours to 8 years.

His past evidently caught up with him because there are several entries (undated) all in red ink that amend his name, age and date of birth to their correct status. The alias of “James Johnstone Walsh” was used thereafter.

He was granted pensionable service for his previous service and it also counted towards his service and good conduct pay.

He also paid for his “Run” from the Royal Marine Artillery by having 14 days forfeited for Absence.”

He qualified as a Gun Layer and 1^st Class Gunner.

His record also lists his service dates in South Africa with the Imperial Yeomanry and confirms his entitlement to the QSA and clasps.

James Johnstone Walsh served in India for one and a half years, Aden for just over one year and then India for a further three years. He returned “Home” on 27 January, 1911.

He was “Transferred to the Reserve” on 3 March, 1911.

Edinburgh City Police

On 4 April, 1911, he joined Edinburgh City Police as PC 276 B in Gayfield Square and “Resigned” on 29 August, 1911. He, like every other officer in Edinburgh City Police, was awarded the Coronation (Scottish Police) Medal, 1911.

There are only two entries in the Edinburgh City Police Weekly Records concerning him, the day he joined and the day he left.

Discharge from the Army Reserve

On 15 August, 1911, his Army Record records that he was “Discharged at his own request on payment of £25.00…”

Shanghai Municipal Police

  The Shanghai Municipal Police policed the Shanghai International Settlement in China between 1854 and 1943 and recruited in the United Kingdom via Government Agents. A regular stream of young men went to Shanghai but promotion from the lower ranks was limited as most senior officers were recruited from British or Colonial Police forces.

Walsh left London with a draft of recruits on 4 September, 1911 arriving in Shanghai in mid to late October.

  According to the records of the Shanghai Municipal Police in, James Johnstone Walsh served there from October, 1911 before he left for Hong Kong aboard the steamer Assaye on 23 April, 1912.

New South Wales Police 1

James Johnstone Walsh arrived in Sydney, Australia on 18 May, 1912 and according to the records of the New South Wales Police, he joined as a Probationary Constable on 3 May that year. He was known thereafter as “Jock” Walsh.

He served in Granville, a suburb of western Sydney and then Mittagong, a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales (NSW).

On 12 May, 1915, like thousands of Australians, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force for service in the 1^st World war.

Australian Imperial Force

He joined as a Gunner, his regimental number was 4834 and he was posted to the 12^th Field Artillery Brigade.

He sailed with his regiment from Melbourne, Victoria on 15 September, 1915 aboard the S.S. Makarini. A note on the nominal roll shows him as “Acting Sergeant.

  He served with distinction in France and Belgium where he was ‘Mentioned in Despatches’, Gazetted in London (No. 31448) on 11 July, 1919 and the Commonwealth Gazette, No.124 of 30 October, 1919.

He was also awarded the Croix de Guerre (Belgium), the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. (The Croix de Guerre is the last medal in the row, looking left to right above).

He returned to Australia on 1 April, 1919 at the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 (Battery Sergeant Major) and rejoined New South Wales Police.

New South Wales Police 2

From then he served in the Metropolitan District, until 1925 when he transferred to the Depot from then until 1930.  He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 June, 1927. From then, apart from another short posting to the Depot in 1931, he served in the Metropolitan District until 1935.

He then served at Cootamundra, a town in the South West Slopes region of NSW from 1936 to 1938.

  From then he served again in the Metropolitan District, apart from a short posting to the Stockrington Colliery in the Hunter region of NSW and retired from the force on his 60th birthday, 6 August, 1943.

Shortly before his retirement, he was recommended for the award of the Imperial Service Medal and it was presented by “His Excellency, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1^st Earl of Gowrie, the Governor-General of Australia, on Tuesday, 19 September, 1944.

Jock Walsh died in Australia on 22 December, 1946 aged 63. 

  Much of the information about the life and career of James Johnstone Walsh, including the photographs here, have all come from the efforts of Megan Martin of Sydney Living Museums in Australia.

Megan contacted me through the website regarding James Johnstone Walsh’s brief time in the Scottish Police. It has been an extremely interesting enquiry to follow through to its conclusion.

The medals are in the care of Sydney Living Museums.

I am very grateful to Megan for all the information and pictures of ‘Jock’ Walsh and also for the kind permission to use them here.

You can access Sydney Living Museums at:

http://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/

You can also visit the Museum of the Scottish Shale Mining Industry at:

http://www.scottishshale.co.uk/GazMines/Cobbinshaw1+2Mine.html

 

scottishpolicemedals – Edinburgh City Police – PC James Johnstone Walsh

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24 May 2026 

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Donald Ross ROWLISON

AKA  ? 

* Nickname:  Rowly

Late of Casino, NSW  

His Grandfather was also a Policeman in UK

Relations in ‘the job’:

“possible” relation in ‘the job‘:    ?

NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern or  Police Training College – Penrith – Class #  ? ? ? 

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  ???? 

Rank:  Commenced Training at  ? Police Academy on Monday ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed ? ? ?

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Final Rank: = Sergeant 1st Class

Stations:  ?, Caramba ( Cst )( 1920 ), Bellingen ( 1921 ), ?, Nymboida ( 1927 – Jan 1934 ), South West Rocks ( O.I.C. )( Jan. 1934 – ? ), Frederickton ( 1939 )( Cst 1/c ), Bundarra ( 1939 / 1940 )( Sgt ), Manilla ( Sgt )( 1943 ), ?,Casino ( Sgt )( 1946 ), ?

Service: From  ? ? ?     to     ? ? ?  =  ?   years,  Service

Retirement / Leaving age: =  ?

Time in Retirement from Police:  ?

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World War I

Australian Imperial Force        Royal Navy

Regiment:                                      ?

Enlisted:                                        30 September 1913

Service #                                        3357

Rank:                                                ?

Embarkation:                               ?

Age at embarkation:                  ?

Occupation:                                  ?

Address:                                        ?

Next of kin:                                  ?

Religion:                                       ?

Single / Married:                       ?

Returned to Australia:            ?

Date of Discharge:                    ?

Awards:                                         ?

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Awards:  No Find on Australian Honours system

 Born:  Saturday 1 October 1892 in Tamworth, NSW

Died on:   Wednesday 20 December 1978

Age:  86 years, 2 months, 19 days

Organ Donor:  NO – Age prohibitive 

Cause:  ?

Event location:   ?

Event / Diagnosis date:  ?

Funeral date:  ? ? 1978

Funeral location:  ?

LIVE STREAM N/A

Wake location:  ???

Wake date:  ???

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at:  Casino Lawn Cemetery, 44 Reynolds Rd, Casino, NSW

Grave Location:  Section:          Row:  ?         Plot:  ?

Grave GPS:  ?,       ?

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at:  ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( June 2023 )

DONALD is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance  *NEED MORE INFO

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Married Ella Sapphire BRODBECK on 9 March 1921 in ‘ Millie Creek ‘ near Barraba, NSW.

Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 – 1954),

Friday 16 July 1948, page 2

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/194146326

Macleay Chronicle (Kempsey, NSW : 1899 – 1952),

Wednesday 13 September 1939, page 6

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/173123083

Macleay Chronicle (Kempsey, NSW : 1899 – 1952),

Wednesday 14 June 1939, page 3

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/173121676

Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser (NSW : 1886 – 1942),

Tuesday 30 October 1928, page 4

James Briggs (39) was charged at the Grafton Police Court on Tuesday afternoon with having on a travelling stock route at Nymboida assaulted Constable Donald Ross Rowlison, while in- the execution of his duty. Charges of drunkeness and of having made use of indecent language were also preferred against the defendant, who was remanded on all counts until Monday.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126809342

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 2 March 1934 (No.39), page 1050

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 21 January 1927 (No.8), page 453

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220227769

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 7 January 1927 (No.2), page 43

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220227278

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 17 October 1924 (No.134), page 4786

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 22 July 1921 (No.103), page 4249

The undermentioned members of the Police Force to exercise within the Licensing Districts preceding their names the authority conferred by section 63, subsection 1, of the Liquor Act, 1912, from the dates specified,

viz.:—

Bellingen — Constable Donald Ross Rowlison and Constable Albert Edward Moore, stationed at Bellingen, -—from the 1st July, 1921.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224619974

Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 13 August 1920 (No.150 (SUPPLEMENT)), page 4857

The undermentioned members of the Police Force to exercise, within the Licensing Districts preceding their names, the authority conferred by section 63, subsection 1 of the Liquor Act, 1912, from the dates specified, viz.: —

Grafton— Constable Donald Ross Rowlison, stationed at Coramba, — from the 19th July, 1920.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224610082

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OLIVER CLYNE WATERS

AKA  Oliver Clive Waters   

Late of  Parramatta  

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  9986  

Service:  From 6th January 1915   to   26th May 1915   =  4 months Service  

Rank:  Commenced Training at / as ? Police Academy Police Cadet on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 6th January 1915

Constable – appointed 6th January 1916 (posthumously in 1918)

Final Rank =  Constable

Stations:  Parramatta

Retirement / Leaving age: = 24

Time in Retirement from Police: 21

Awards:  National Medal – granted ? ? ?

 Born:  September 1893

Died on:   6th November 1917

Age:  24

Cause:  Killed in Action

Event location:   Ypres, Belgium

Event date:  8th November 1917

Funeral date: His body was not recovered.

Funeral location:  A funeral was not held.   

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Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: His body was not recovered.

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: Menin Gate, Belgium

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( July 2021 )

He is mentioned on the NSW Police Force Roll of Honour 1914-1918

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Oliver Clive Waters (recorded as Oliver Clyne Waters in the NSW Police Gazette) was born about September 1893 at Hickeys Creek near Kempsey.

Oliver Clyne Waters was sworn in as a Probationary Constable of the NSW Police Force on the 6^th January 1915. He was attached to Parramatta. He was confirmed as a Constable on the 6^th January 1916 although this was done posthumously in 1918 .

On the 26^th May 1915 Constable Waters joined the Australian Imperial Forces. He was attached to the 3^rd Battalion 8^th Reinforcements. The 3^rd Battalion was in the 2^nd and 3^rd waves at Gallipolis. They were also involved in the battle of Lone Pine. Oliver did not arrive until November 1915 which was after these battles. However by December 1915 Oliver was wounded and evacuated with all of the AIF. The Battalion was sent to Egypt where they defended the Suez Canal.

In May 1916 the 3^rd Battalion embarked for France and for the next 2½ years served in the trenches of the Western Front.  On the 27^th July 1916 Oliver was wounded in action during the Battle of Pozieres. He was sent to hospital and eventually transferred to England for his injuries and other illnesses that he had contracted.

In September 1917 Oliver was transferred back to the 3^rd Battalion. He was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on the 8^th November 1917. He was originally reported wounded and missing. Witnesses reported he was badly wounded from a shell in the hand, face and legs at Zonnebeke near Passchendaele. He was carried by comrades to some stretcher bearers who took him to a Canadian dressing station. There is no further information about him after that. His body was never found.

His name is on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.

There are photographs of Oliver Waters in Police and Army uniform on Ancestry.

Christopher Richard Thomas LAMBERT

AKA  ?

Late of Ferntree Gully, Victoria

NSW Academy Class #  ? ? ?

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  ‘ Q ‘ 6562

For the purposes of this website ‘Q’ represents those Police joining between 1 March 1862 ( commencement of NSWPF ) – 23 February 1915 ( Commencement of NSWPF current numbering system )

Rank:  Commenced Training on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 12 June 1893

Constable – appointed ? ? ? 

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? 

Final Rank =  ?

Stations:  NSW Mounted Police – Newtown, Pambula ( 1901 )

Service:  From ? pre 12 June 1893?   to   ? ? 1902?  =  9 years Service

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World War I 

Australian Imperial Force

ANZAC

Christopher Richard Thomas LAMBERT 

Regiment: 23rd Reinforcements / 8 Light Horse Regiment

Enlisted:  7 September 1916 ( aged 44years, 10 months )( 6′ 1″ tall, 177 lbs, Chest 37.5 – 39.5″, Fresh complexion, Blue eyes, Grey hair, scar left knee )

Attestation:  27 November 1916 to 23/8 Light Horse.  He did 18 months abroad.

Service # 3062

Rank: Trooper, Private, Temporary Corporal from 1 April 1917 to ?

Embarkation: at Melbourne per A 25 ” Anglo-Egyptian” on 31 January 1917

Age at embarkation: ?

Occupation: Clerk

Address: ‘Mitfer Lodge’, 15 Willan St, Brighton, Victoria

Next of kin:  Wife, Mrs Bridget Agnes Lambert

Religion: Church of England

Single / Married: Married

Returned to Australia: 17 August 1918 – Rheumatism

Discharged:  3 September 1918

Awards: 1914 / 15 Star,  British War Medal # 63103, Victory Medal # 61018

National Archives of Australia

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Police Awards: No Find on Australian Honours

Born:  28 October 1868, Baghmire, Galway, Ireland

Died on:  Thursday  5 September 1957

Age:  89 years

Cause:  ?

Event location:   ?, Windsor

Event date:  ?

Funeral date:  9 September 1957

Funeral location:  ?

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: Ferntree Gully, Forest Rd, Ferntree Gully, Victoria

Grave location:  Roman Catholic Section, B, 8, 10

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( April 2020 )

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Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 – 1930),

Saturday 8 June 1901, page 12

Constable Christopher Richard Thomas Lambert to act as clerk of Petty Sessions at Pambula;

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237283909

Christopher was allotted, Lot 63A which consisted of 47 acres, 1 rod & 4 perches of land on 9 April 1923 in Blackwood Park Estate, the Parish of Scoresby, Victoria.

At this time he was residing at 17 Vaucluse St, ?, .  He is married and 53 years of age at this time with no dependants.

When asked what his occupations was before the war ( WWI ), he stated ‘ Station life as Coufser? in Queensland.

He further states he has ” Practically lifelong since 1890, done farming, in Australia and also farmed in Ireland.”

In a report to the Secretary, Closer Settlement Board, dated 20 March 1929, it is stated that Lambert is not doing all that is desired under the Act.  Lambert does as little as possible to comply.

Lambert was summoned to the Ferntree Gully Court for failure to obey the Act on the 30 November 1928 by keeping his holdings clear of blackberry bushes.

http://soldiersettlement.prov.vic.gov.au/soldiers/742-12-lambert-christopher-richard-thomas/#prettyPhoto

Charles David HILAIRE

AKA  ?

Late of  ?

NSW Redfern Police Academy Class #  ? ? 

1907 to 1942 it was the ‘Police Depot’ at Bourke St, Redfern or sometimes referred to as Centennial Park. (used by Defence Force during WW2).

New South Wales Police Force

Uniform # was 1234

Regd. #  1118

Rank:  Commenced Training at Academy on ? ? ?

Probationary Constable- appointed 9 May 1921

Final Rank =  Probationary Constable

‘Drunk whilst on duty on the 24 December 1921.  His Appointment ( to Constable ) deferred for a period of 3 months ( this would mean that he would Not be Appointed a Constable on the 9 May 1922 and would have to wait until at least 9 August 1922 to be Appointed but he was Discharged 3 weeks before that date’

Stations:  Metropolitan District – No. 7 Division ( Redfern ) as of 16 July 1921

Service:  From ? pre May 1921? ?   to   21 July 1922  =  1+ years Service

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World War I 

Australian Imperial Force

Regiment:      10/5 Machine Gun Co.

Enlisted:         Sydney, NSW on Wednesday 11 October 1916

Service #        600

Age:                  24 years 3 months

Rank:              Private ( 11 October 1916 )

Embarkation:  17 January 1917 – Embark Melbourne on ‘ Omrah ‘. Disembarked Plymouth, England on 27 March 1917

Age at embarkation: ?

Occupation:    Labourer

Address:           Sanoni Ave, Sandringham, Sydney, NSW

Next of kin:     Margaret Stella Hilaire ( wife )

Religion:          Baptist

Single / Married:   Married

Description:    5′ 10.5″ tall, 157 lbs in weight, 34.5″ – 38.5″ chest, Hazel eyes & brown hair.  Mole on back of neck, Scar outside left leg.

Prev Exp:     Volunteers ( Infantry ) at Orange, NSW 1.5 Yrs.  Left District

Returned to Australia:  25 May 1919

Awards:   1914 / 15 Star issued.  British War Medal issued.  Victory Medal issued.

Discharged:  29 June 1919

Notes:  Had a few A.W.O.Ls for which he was fined.  Wounded in action – France on 25 May 1918 with the 1st Machine Gun Battalion.

Invalided back to United Kingdom, from France, on 2 June 1918. Admitted to Horton County of London War Hospital, Epsom, England on 2 June 1918 suffering from Gunshot Wound – right arm, severe.

Returned to Australia via ‘Karmala ‘ SW ( Shrapnel Wound ) to Right arm, from England, on 2 January 1919.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5457957&S=1

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Police Awards:  Nil

Born:  Tuesday  19 June 1894, Cumberland, NSW

Died on:  Thursday  19 April 1973

Age:  78 years, 10 months

Cause:  ?

Event location:   ?

Event date:  ?

Funeral date:  ? A pril 1973

Funeral location:  ? 

Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at: Woronora Memorial Park, Linden St, Sutherland

Section:  Lawn 4, Position 698

Grave site Details:  h/Margaret Stella Mary; son/John Bolingbrook & Elizabeth Ann; 600 Pte 1 MG Bn AIF; father; AGE at Death: 78

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: ?

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On his NSWPF Service Card, the following details are recorded:

Foot Patrol

5′ 10.5″ tall,  11 stone 3 lbs in weight, light brown eyes and brown hair with a fair complexion.  Is a native of NSW and was married.

His previous employment was a Tramway Conductor with NSW Trams.

He was a Baptist.

He was ‘Discharged’ from the employ of NSWPF on the 21 July 1922 not having his Appointment of ‘Constable’ confirmed.

Record of Offences and Special Services:

Enlisted ( WWI )  November 1916.  Discharged June 1919,  Promotions & decorations – Nil

24.12.21 ( 1921 ).  Drunk whilst on duty on the 24th December 1921.

‘Severely reprimanded and Cautioned and his appointment deferred for a period of 3 months’  Noted 29.12.1921

In 1969, he was living in Alexandria, NSW.

Kevin Banister

Charles David HILAIRE #600 ( A.I.F. ) was wounded in action in France on 25/5/1918, Gun Shot Wound, right arm, severe.

After treatment in France he arrived at the London War Hospital on 2/6/1918.

He arrived back in Australia on 22/2/1919 and was discharged on 29/6/1919.

If all went to plan he should have received the 1914/15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

On his war service his address was given as Sinone Ave, Sandringham, A.K.A. Dolls Point.

Sinone Ave leads down to the Georges River 16ft Sailing Club.

On 8/10/1941 he was acquitted of the manslaughter of the bicycle rider Hawkins.

Just as a matter of interest a George H. Hilaire of Punchbowl, ( not that far from Dolls Point ) WW1 Service # 2516 also signed up. He was wounded ( gassed ) and returned home.

Was he a brother of Charles?

Finally, Charles was a Probationary Constable on 9/5/1921 # 1118.

Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 – 1954),

Thursday 17 July 1941, page 2

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235589417

Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 – 1954),

Sunday 20 July 1941, page 29

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Wednesday 8 October 1941, page 11

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17767896/1105466

Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 – 1954),

Thursday 9 October 1941, page 6

Charles David Hilaire, 47, labourer, was acquitted at the Quarter Sessions of a charge of the manslaughter of Stanley Kevin Hawkins, aged 18 years, of Fleet Street, Carlton, who was riding a bicycle at Brighton-le-Sands on June 21, 1941, when a car driven by Hilaire collided with it.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235584234

Propeller (Hurstville, NSW : 1911 – 1954),

Thursday 30 October 1941, page 2

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235595618

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Wednesday 31 May 1944, page 5

WORKERS COMPENSATION COMMISSION

Judge Lamond – No 2 court -10: Charles David Hilaire and Metropolitan W. S. and D. Bd.; ( Metropolitan Water, Sewerage & Drainage Board )

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17909099

 George Pearce POCOCK

Late of 85 Concord Rd, Concord

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  ‘Q‘ 7808

For the purposes of this website ‘Q‘ represents those Police joining between 1862 ( commencement of NSWPF ) – 23 February 1915 ( Commencement of NSWPF current numbering system )

Rank:  Probationary Constable – appointed Wednesday 13 November 1901 ( aged 22 years, 8 months, 17 days )

Constable 1st Class – Ashfield Electoral Registrar from 15 February 1920

Constable 1st Class – Petersham Electoral Registrar from 1 July 1921

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 1 April 1929

Sergeant 2nd Class – death

Final Rank = Sergeant 2nd Class

Stations:  ?, Lock Up Keeper – Ashfield for 10 years ( 1901? – 1911? ), Burwood ( 1911? – 1922 / where he was promoted to Sgt ), Concord – O.I.C. ( 1922 – 1929 / Sgt – death )

Service:  From Wednesday 13 November 1901   to  8 December 1929 = 28 years, 0 months, 25 days Service

Awards:   ?

Born:   Thursday 27 February 1879, Sydney, NSW

Died on:   Sunday 8 December 1929

Age:  50 years, 9 months, 11 days

Cause:   ?

Event location:   ?

Event date:   ?

Funeral date:   Monday  9 December 1929 @ 2.30pm from home 

Funeral location:   Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW

Funeral Parlour:  Motor Funerals Ltd  

Buried at:  Rookwood Cemetery,  Church of England

Zone C, Section 09, Grave 3281

 Memorial located at:   ?

 George is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance  *NEED MORE INFO

 Funeral location:  TBA

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SW. Paybook photograph of NX3224 Lance Bombardier Edward Alfred Pocock, 2/3rd Field Regiment, …

John Frederick YORKE

AKA  JACK

Late of Morgan St, Adamstown

Is the Great Grandson of Constable William OXLEY – NSWPF

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #  ????

Rank:  Constable

Stations:  ?, Newcastle ( last 11 years )

Service:  From  ? ? 1920  to  18 January 1936 = 16 years Service

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World War I

Australian Imperial Force

Regiment:                                     53rd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement

Enlisted:                                        28 February 1916

Service #                                        2022

Rank:                                               Private ( Machine Gunner )

Embarkation:                              from Sydney on board HMAT A37 Barambah on 23 June 1916

Age at embarkation:                 25

Occupation:                                 Labourer

Address:                                        ‘ Lindburn ‘, Mudgee, NSW

Next of kin:                                  Father, Robert John Yorke, ‘ Lindburn ‘, Mudgee, NSW

Religion:                                        Church of England

Single / Married:                        Single

Returned to Australia:            5 April 1919

Awards:                                          ?

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Awards:   No find on It’s An Honour

Born:   27 October 1890 at Cooyal, Mudgee, NSW

Died on:   Saturday  18 January 1936

Age:  44

Cause:   Heart trouble & disabilities sustained at the Great War – WWI

Event location:  Home – Morgan St, Adamstown

Event date:  Saturday  18 January 1936

Funeral date:   Sunday  19 January 1936 @ 2.15pm

Funeral location:   Soldiers’ Memorial Hall, Perkin St, Newcastle then Graveside – Sandgate Cemetery via Civic Railway Station

Funeral Parlour:  David Lloyd Funeral Director

Buried at:   Sandgate Cemetery,

 GPS of Grave:  -32.867239428,  151.706454238

Anglican 2, Section 139, Lot 78

Memorial located at:   ?

JOHN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED

 

 

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Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 – 1954), Monday 3 February 1936, page 6

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ANOTHER DIGGER PASSES

Constable Yorke Hears Last Call

A GALLANT digger, fine comrade and splendid citizen, in the person of Constable J. F. Yorke, ” went west ” at Adamstown quite recently, and Australia is the poorer by his passing.

Son of Mr Robert J. Yorke, a pioneer settler of the Linburn district, deceased spent his early life among us, and won for himself friends among all classes of the community.

When the war drums sounded he, with other young patriots, sprang to arms, and on the other side he did honor to the country which reared him.

As a machine gunner in the 53rd battalion, he fought with the cool courage of a veteran, and returned to Australia with a proud record of service.

The police force then attracted him, and he linked up with the northern branch.

For about 14 years he fulfilled a public duty with the same splendid spirit which characterised his war service, and earned the respect of those among whom he served and the confidence of his officers. The high esteem in which he was held made itself manifest at his funeral, the sad cortege being one of the most impressive seen in the north for many years.

From the War Memorial Institute, Newcastle, marched over 70 members of the police force, including the officer in charge of the division (also representative of the Commissioner). Inspectors Aspery, McAlpine and Davis, and other prominent officials.

A sorrowing widow and six children are left to mourn a devoted husband and father, and their grief is great. His venerable father, who has borne up with great fortitude under the buffetings of adversity, will have the deepest sympathy of the whole district.

Other members of the bereaved family are Mr Stan Yorke (brother). Mrs Drew (sister,. Home Rule), and Mrs B. Pyne (sister, Sydney).

The ” Guardian ” sympathises with the sorrowing family who, however, will. And some consolation in the knowledge that their loved one was held In such universal respect.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162514683

 

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (NSW : 1876 – 1954), Monday 20 January 1936, page 6

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POLICE MARCH

Funeral of Constable Yorke

Headed by the band of the 2/35th Battalion, 70 members of the Newcastle police force, led by Constable S. ( Stephen ) Pender, marched yesterday at the funeral of Constable John Frederick Yorke, who died suddenly at his home at Adamstown early on Saturday morning.

The funeral left the Returned Sailors and Soldiers’ Memorial Hall, Perkin-street, yesterday, and proceeded to the Civic railway station, and then to Sandgate Cemetery.

The coffin was draped in the Union Jack.

The chief mourners were the widow, the father, Mr. Robert Yorke, of Linburn, near Mudgee: sisters. Mesdames C. H. Raisin, of Linburn, S. Pyne, of Sydney, Mrs. A. James, mother-in-law, of Home Ride, near Gulgong: Mesdames Esther Simpson. A. James, and Miss T. James sisters-in-law: Mr. Edgar James, brother-in-law of Home Rule; and the Mayor of Paddington (Ald. T. J. Whelan), a close friend.

The pall-bearers were Constables W. S. Brady, H, G. Brady, K. J. Costello. and E. Francis. Detectives E. H. Schumack and C. W. R. McMahon. and Messrs. W. Yates and A. Williams, representing the Adamstown Bowling Club.

Rev. M. M. Redman, of the Church of England, Adamstown, held the graveside service.

The service of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, of which Constable Yorke had been a member, was read by the Deputy Grand Master ( Bro. G. Kelly ).

Constable Yorke was born at Mudgee 44 years ago.

Death was due to heart trouble and the effects of disabilities sustained at the Great War, where he served three years with the 53rd Battalion.

He is survived by his widow and six children.

Quiet and unassuming, he was popular in the police force which he joined 16 years ago.

He had been stationed at Newcastle for the past 11 years.

Among those present at the funeral were the Officer in charge of the North-Eastern police district (Mr. J. H. White), who represented he Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. Mackay): Inspectors J. H. Aspery, A. G. McAlpin. and F. Noble: Messrs. W. Snow, President, and G. Hook, Secretary representing the Friendly Societies’ Association; Mr. J. Tarn, Assistant Clerk of Petty Sessions, representing the staff of the Newcastle Courthouse: and several members of the Adamstown Bowling Club.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/142405448

 

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Married Lena ‘Eva’ Mabel JAMES ( 2/4/1890 – 14/1/1992 ) in 1922 at Gulgong, NSW.

 

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Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative (NSW : 1890 – 1954), Monday 26 May 1919, page 2

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Returned Soldiers.

Private J. Yorke, son of Mr. Robert Yorke, of Linburn arrived home on Saturday morning looking remarkably well.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158004259

 

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Thomas David GREGORY

24/05/2026

Thomas David GREGORY

aka David Thomas GREGORY

Late of  Grose St, Parramatta

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. #   ?????

Rank:  Constable 1st Class

Stations: ?, Dundas, Parramatta, Parramatta Court House

Service:  From  ? ? 1921  to  ? ? 1953 = 32 years Service

World War I

Australian Imperial Force  ANZAC

Regiment:                                5th Reinforcements /56th Battalion / 14th Brigade – Flers, France from February 1917

Enlisted:                                   3 April 1916 at Goulburn, NSW as David Thomas GREGORY

Service #                                   2515 /  N13219

Rank:                                          Private

Embarkation:                          to France on 30/9/1916.  Wounded.  Gunshot wounds to leg and arm ( walking wounded )

Next of kin:                              Thomas GREGORY

Religion:                                   Anglican  5′ 11.5″ tall, 155 lbs in weight, Chest = 34 / 38″. Dark Comp. Grey eyes. Brown hair.

Single / Married:                   single

Returned to Australia:        22 February 1919                 Discharged: 14 April 1919

 https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/212365/

Awards:  Imperial Service Medal – granted 5 March 1954

Born:  ? August 1893 in Queanbeyan, NSW

Died on:  31 March 1962

Age:  69

Cause:  ?

Event location:   Parramatta, NSW

Event date:   31 March 1962

Funeral date:  ? ? ?

Funeral location:  All Saints Church, Parramatta

Buried at:  St Paul’s Cemetery,   233 Marsden Rd, Carlingford

 Memorial located at:  ?

 

[alert_yellow]THOMAS is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow]

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NSWBDM:

Birth:             30233/1893

Marriage:      16981/1921 – Mildred Jane DUFFIELD

Death:           15132/1962

 

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Cumberland Argus (Parramatta, NSW : 1950 – 1962), Wednesday 2 May 1962, page 2

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Parramatta’s first ‘P.D.’ driver

Hundreds mourn death of ex-police officer

A former policeman, who drove the first ‘PD’ car ever used in Parramatta, died recently after nine years’ retirement from the force.

He was Constable First Class Thomas David Gregory ( 68 ) and he is survived by his wife and two married sons and daughters. Many senior police officers joined the guard of honour outside All Saints Church following the funeral service.

Constable Gregory, who served for many years in Parramatta and Dundas, retired from the force in 1953 after 32 years service.

Popular

A returned soldier from World War I, he was popular with children throughout the district for his care and attention while directing traffic at the city’s busiest intersections.

A former fellow – officer said yesterday that Constable Gregory was one of the most popular officers ever to serve in Parramatta. He said Const. Gregory was a familiar sight throughout the district driving a ‘bullnozed’ PD car in 1925.

Tributes

Const. Gregory was later transferred to duty in Parramatta Court House, and on his retirement, tributes to him were paid by Judges, Senior Counsel and other members of the Bar. His death came as a blow to the hundreds of people who knew him during his police service and since his retirement.

A long guard of honour of friends and former fellow officers stood in respect as the cortege left from his Grose Street home. Rev. O. Crawford conducted the service at All Saints Church, and later at the graveside in St. Paul’s cemetery, Carlingford.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131330825

 

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Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW : 1888 – 1950), Monday 22 June 1936, page 1

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Wireless Patrol in Crash

Chase of Stolen Car

FENCE KNOCKED DOWN

Constable Gregory’s promptness and presence of mind averted what might have been a fatal crash In Church-street, Parramatta, early on Sunday morning, when a stolen car, travelling at over 70 miles an hour, swerved in front of the Parramatta Police wireless patrol car.

Constable Gregory, who was driving the wireless car, turned quickly to avoid a collision. A front tyre blew out and the car, getting into a broadside skid, ran on to the footpath,knocked down a fence and finished up in a hedge.

The accident occurred after the two cars had crossed Lennox Bridge. The driver of the stolen car, who was accompanied by a man and a woman, swerved in front as the police drew abreast.

Despite the high speed at which it was travelling, the patrol car received relatively small damage. With Constable Gregory were Constable Tompkins ( operator ) and Detective Booth.

The stolen car disappeared.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104685983

 

 

 

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate (NSW : 1876 – 1954) , Monday 9 March 1931, page 4

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TWO MEN CHARGED

Fugitive Shot in Knee

SYDNEY Sunday.

When one of two men failed to stop after being challenged by the police in Sydney-road, Granville last night, Constable Gregory fired three shots, one of which struck a fugitive in the left knee. The man was conveyed to the Parramatta Hospital, and admitted. The other man made no attempt to escape when the police made their challenge. Subsequently both men were charged.

The police visited a house in Auburn and recovered £300 worth of property, alleged to have been stolen.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137689789

 

 

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Nepean Times ( Penrith )    Saturday  20 July 1929   p3

BETTING CHARGE FAILS

Constable GREGORY from Parramatta and Constable GREGORY from No. 3 Division ( Darlinghurst )

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100925502

 

 

 

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Thomas David Gregory

Block 110D Woden District

 

Thomas David Gregory was born in 1893 in the Queanbeyan district on NSW. Some sources, including his enlistment papers, state his name as David Thomas Gregory although birth and baptismal records give his name as Thomas David Gregory. His grandfather and father were rural workers at properties around Duntroon and Tharwa and Gregory is associated with Royalla, NSW where he too was a farm labourer.

Gregory enlisted in April 1916 with the 56th Battalion and joined his unit near Flers in France in February 1917. The 56th Battalion fought at Louverval and Bullecourt during April and May 1917. Gregory was gassed at Polygon Wood in Belgium in September 1917. He rejoined the 56th Battalion in June 1918 and was wounded three months later at Péronne on the Somme River where he was shot in the ankle, leg and forearm.

After the war, Gregory worked for a few months at the Royal Military College, Duntroon before applying for a Soldier Settlement block. In his application, he indicated he wanted to graze sheep, that he was single with no dependents and that he had £250 in capital.

Gregory was granted the lease on Woden Block 110D of 208 acres (84 hectares), one of the smallest blocks in the District of Woden. Jerrabomberra Avenue (now the Monaro Highway) boarded the block on the west and Narrabundah Lane on the north. The lease began on the 3rd April 1920 for 25 years at an annual rental of £50/10.

The Commonwealth never intended for anyone to be able to make a living from Woden Block 110D; Gregory certainly didn’t. He applied for an advance of £168/15 to buy 150 ewes as well as funds to build fences worth about £35. However, it seems that Gregory did not stock his block but sublet it, as he wrote in 1922, “for 2 years to Messrs Hardy and Reid.”

By 1922, Gregory had moved to Parramatta, NSW where he married and also joined the New South Wales Police Force. William Harris, a neighbour at Jerrabomberra, looked after the block on Gregory’s behalf. He held onto Woden Block 110D until May 1931 when he transferred it to another neighbour, Hector McIntosh, who in turn sold it to Hugh Read in 1934. Thomas Gregory retired from the NSW Police in 1953 as a Senior Constable and died on the 31st March 1962 in Parramatta.

 

http://www.archives.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/562506/ACT_Rate_Book_1927.pdf

 

http://www.archives.act.gov.au/repatandrabbits/thomas_gregory

 

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Joseph Sylvester Vinson THOMPSON

24/05/2026

Joseph Sylvester Vinson THOMPSON

Queensland Police Force

Regd. #   ?

Rank:  Constable

Stations:  ?, Bell – ENLISTMENT

Service:  From  ? ? ?  to  ? ? ? = ? years Service

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World War I

Australian Imperial Force     Army / Flying Corps

Regiment:                                    25th Australian Infantry Battalion, 7th Brigade

Enlisted:  ?

Service #                                       2883A

Rank:                                             Private / Corporal

Embarkation:                             Brisbane HMAT A48 Seang Bee on Thu. 21 October 1915

Disembarked:                             Suez, Egypt on Sunday  28 November 1915

Embarked:                                   on HMT Saxonia at Alexandria to join BEF in Marseilles

                                                         Monday  27 March – Monday 3 April 1916

Next of kin:                                  Margaret Elizabeth THOMPSON of Sandringham, Barraba, NSW – Mother

Religion:                                        Presbyterian

Single / Married:  ?

Returned to Australia:  ?

War Awards:                               Victory Medal

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 Civillian Awards:  ?

Born:  ? ? 1884 in Manilla, NSW

Died on:  Saturday  25 July 1916

Cause:  K.I.A., France during WWI

Age:  ?

Funeral date:  ?

Funeral location:  ?

Buried at:  ?

 Memorial at:  ?

 

 

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FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal

 

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Age at enlistment Boer War

Age at enlistment World War 1

Service occupation

Civil occupation

Name of Horse

Cause of death

Medals, Honours, Awards

• Victory Medal

Gender

Height (approx)

Weight (approx)

Chest measurement (max)

Complexion

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Hair colour

Religion

 

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• • Joseph Thompson – Queensland Police Constable
  • Posted by Keith McPhee, Saturday, 4 October 2014

  Joseph Sylvester Vinson Thompson was born at Manilla, NSW in 1884, the third and youngest son of four children born to Henry John and Margaret Elizabeth (nee Hagan) Thompson. At the age of 31 years he enlisted in the AIF (Regimental Number 2883A) on the 9th of July 1915 at Brisbane, stating that his occupation was as a Police Constable at Bell, Queensland. He listed his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Thompson of Sandringham, Barraba, New South Wales, as his next of kin.

  Initially he was posted at the rank of Private to the 25th Battalion/6th Reinforcements at Enoggera near Brisbane. On the 21st of October 1915 at Pinkenba, Brisbane he embarked on the HMAT A48 Seang Bee bound for active service, arriving at Suez on the 28th of November 1915. Upon arrival it appears that he was assigned to the 7th Training Battalion at Zeitoun.

  On the 27th of February 1916 he was allotted to and proceeded to join the 9th Battalion. The next day he joined the 9th Battalion “D” Company at Gebel Habieta, about 12 miles (20 km) east of the Suez Canal. There is no record of when he received his promotion however when he transferred to the 9th Battalion he reverted to the ranks but was immediately afterwards promoted to the rank of Corporal in his new unit.

  On the 27th of March 1916 he was with troops who embarked at Alexandria on the HMT Saxonia and sailed to join the British Expeditionary Force, disembarking in Marseille, France on the 3rd of April. He’d have gone by train to northern France and from there he would have been posted to active duty on the western front in the Somme.

  Corporal Joseph Thompson was killed in action while fighting near Pozieres in the Somme, France on the 22nd of July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France.

   http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/15153

 

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Edward Ernest BEZER

24/05/2026

Edward Ernest BEZER

aka  Ted

 

late of 8 Lea Avenue, Willoughby, NSW

 

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 00295

 

Rank:  Probationary Constable – appointed on 29/12/1916

29/12/1917 – Constable Second Class

1925 – Constable First Class

1930 – Sergeant

Acting Inspector – appointed 20 March 1949

Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 20 June 1949

 

Final Rank:  Inspector 3rd Class

 

Stations:

1919 – Sutherland ( 24 Division )

1920 – Newcastle

1922 – Muswellbrook

1923 – Greta (temporary posting)

1923 – Muswellbrook

1924 – Sydney

1927 /1933 – Mosman

1938 – Pyrmont

1940 – Daceyville

1947 – Possibly Penrith

1949 – Mosman

1951 – North Sydney

Regent St Police Stn.

He went on Long Service Leave whilst at North Sydney some weeks/months prior to his death on 24/06/1951. Not definitely known if he was still serving at the time of his death while on leave, or had retired very shortly before his death.

Service:

From pre 29 December 1916  to   24 June 1951 = 35 years Service.

During his Service he was involved in flood boat operations at Narrabri in 1920 during devastating floods that hit the area. Manned a boat with other Police that rowed and floated down flooded creeks and rivers searching for survivors/victims. In 1934 he competed in the Police (Carnival) Games held at the Sydney Show Grounds. Tossing the Caber and 16lb Shot Put.

 

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World War I

Australian Naval Force

Regiment:                      ?

Service:                          ANF ( Australian Naval Force )

Service #                       1205

Rank:                             Boy 2nd Class

Date of Enlistment:     Tue. 7 November 1911

Next of kin:                  Edward Ernest BEZER,  33 Burlington St, Nth. Sydney

Religion:                       C of E

Single / Married:        ?

Embarkation ship:     Pyramus

Returned to Australia:  ?

https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/bundled/RCDIG1070927.pdf

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Awards:  No find on Australian Honours system

 

Born:   7 November 1893, St Leonards, Sydney, NSW

Died on:  Sunday  24 June 1951

Place of death:  Spit Rd, Spit Junction, Mosman, NSW

Cause:  Heart attack whilst walking with his wife.

Age:  57 years, 7 months, 17 days

 

Funeral date:  Tuesday  26 June 1951 @ 10.30am

Funeral location:  Christ Church, Lavender Bay

 

Buried at:  Cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium and ashes scattered on the grave of his parents at Gore Hill Cemetery, St. Leonards, NSW

Memorial at:  ?

TED is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED

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FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.

PLEASE SEND PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO Cal@AustralianPolice.com.au

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Edward served in the Navy prior to enlisting in the Police service in 1916 and because of being a police officer with a German surname received the white coward feather, even though he wasn’t allowed to enlist.

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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 11 April 1919 (No.78 (SUPPLEMENT)), page 2198

 

CHIEF SECRETARY’S DEPARTMENT.

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has, in pursuance of the provisions of the ” Fisheries ( Amendment ) Act, 1910,” and with the concurrence of the Public Service Board, approved of the appointment of the undermentioned officers of police as Assistant Inspectors of Fisheries for New South Wales : —

Constable Second Class Edward Ernest Bezer, of Sutherland. Constable Thomas Ledger, of Leeton.

Constable First Class Nathaniel Herbert Maddern, of Tocumwal.

Constable First Class Ernest Garnett Turnbull, of Captain’s Flat.

Constable First Class Harold Richard Worland, of Miranda.

GEORGE W. FULLER.

11 Apr 1919 – SPECIAL GAZETTE UNDER THE “PUBLIC SERVICE ACT, 1902.” APPOINTMENTS. – Trove

 

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Muswellbrook Chronicle (NSW : 1898 – 1955),

Tuesday 17 April 1923, page 2

Mr. Edward Barker, of the firm of Arthur Rickards and Co., Sydney, has been holidaying with Constable Bezer, of Muswellbrook.

17 Apr 1923 – THE TOWN – Trove

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Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 – 1930),

Friday 23 May 1924, page 8

BODY RECOVERED

MUSWELLBROOK. Thursday.

The body of Charles Charman, drowned yesterday at Bengalla, was recovered this morning by Constable Bezer.

 

23 May 1924 – BODY RECOVERED – Trove

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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 30 March 1928 (No.43), page 1442

 

[12527] Sydney, 30th March, 1928.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS

ACT, 1912, AS AMENDED BY SUBSEQUENT ACTS.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed Electoral Registrars for the Electoral Districts set against their respective names, in pursuance of the provisions of the abovementioned Act,— to take effect from the dates specified, viz.:—

Clerk of Petty Sessions, Campsie, Canterbury, in lieu of Constable McLaughlan, relieved,— from 1st January, 1928.

Constable Rowe Hannaford, Chatswood, Gordon and Willoughby, in lieu of Taylor, transferred,— from 8th November, 1927.

Constable Edward Ernest Bezer, Mosman, Mosman, in lieu of Walsh, transferred,— from 27th January, 1927.

30 Mar 1928 – PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT, 1912, AS AMENDED BY SUBSEQUENT ACTS. – Trove

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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Thursday 14 June 1928, page 2

A REVISION COURT, to revise the List of the Electoral District, of Mosman, which is now on exhibition at every Court House, Post-office, and Police Station within the District, will be holden at the Court House, North Sydney, on Friday, the 6th July, 1928, at 10 a.m. EDWARD ERNEST BEZER, Electoral Registrar, Mosman. 14/6 “28._

14 Jun 1928 – Advertising – Trove

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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Saturday 1 June 1929, page 22

A REVISION COURT to revise the list for the Electoral District of Mosman, which is now on exhibition at every Court House, Post-office and Police Station within the District, will be holden at the Court House, North Sydney, on Friday, the 28th day of June, 1929, at 11 a.m.

EDWARD ERNEST BEZER,

Electoral Registrar, Mosman. 29/5/’29.

01 Jun 1929 – Advertising – Trove

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Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954),

Saturday 16 July 1938, page 3

SEEK DEAD MAN’S KIN

Efforts are being made to trace relatives of Allan McLean Sinclair, a returned soldier, and a native of New Zealand, who died as a result of a fall in Harris-street, Pyrmont, yesterday. He was formerly a steward. Sergeant Bezer, of Pyrmont, is inquiring.

 

16 Jul 1938 – SEEK DEAD MAN’S KIN – Trove

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Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954),

Friday 23 February 1940, page 1

MISSING AFTER WRECK

A man is believed to have been drowned from a launch which was wrecked on rocks near Maroubra Beach early yesterday morning.

Claude Burr, 38,. Prince Edward Theatre commissionaire, who engaged the launch, for a fishing excursion on Tuesday, is missing.

One side of the launch had been torn away, and was found 50 yards from the main hull, which was wedged between rocks.

Seats and pieces of timber were littered over 100 yards.

Mrs. J. McGann, wife of a Watson’s Bay shipyard proprietor, said yesterday she hired the boat to Burr.

He left Watson’s Bay in it about 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

“He said he was going just outside the Heads to fish, and would return in a few hours,” Mrs. McGann said. “He asked my husband’s father, Mr. J. McGann, an ex-sergeant of police, to go with him.

“No Old Clothes”

“Mr. McGann said he wouldn’t go, as he had no old clothes, so Mr. Burr left by himself.

It was blowing hard at the time. ‘

” The launch was a 22ft. open boat with a 41 horsepower engine. The tank was filled with petrol, and there was a reserve tank containing two gallons.

” My husband had been away all day and noticed the launch was not at its mooring when he returned at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

” He did not suspect any trouble as regular customers often take the boats without asking.

” When the launch had not been returned at 10.30 a.m. today, my husband made a search of the Harbor.

” Mr. McGann, Senr., then went to Burr’s home in Phillip Street, Bondi.

Mr. Burr’s wife said be had not returned home.

The police were then notified, and found the boat at Maroubra.”

Rough Seas

Sergeant Bezer, of Daceyville police, who found the launch, said the seas were very rough on Tuesday night.

A badly torn coat was the only clothing found.

Mr. Fred. Burr, manager of the Cameo Theatre, brother of the missing man, said last night that his brother was an exceptionally strong swimmer.

” He was an experienced fisherman and often went outside the Heads in small boats,” said Mr. Burr.

Burr had been employed as commissionaire at the Prince Edward Theatre for 15 years. He has two children, aged six and eight.

 

23 Feb 1940 – MISSING AFTER WRECK – Trove

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Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954),

Monday 31 May 1943, page 5

Boy Drowned In Links Lake

William Ryan, 15, of Baxter Road, Mascot, was drowned yesterday in a lake at The Lakes golf links; Kingsford.

He and a friend, Harry Eagar, 15, also of Baxter Road, were walking on the links when Ryan suggested a swim.

Eagar said: ” I told him it was too cold, and advised him not to go in. But he took off his clothes, except his shorts, and dived in from the weir. ”

Rolled Over, Sank

” He came to the surface. I called to him to come back, but he didn’t speak. He rolled over three or four times and sank. ”

” I dived until I was tired and nearly frozen trying to reach Bill, but the water was too deep. ”

Detective-Sergeant Maddison and other Daceyville police used grappling irons to recover Ryan’s body from the lake which is 15ft. deep.

Sergeant Bezer applied artificial resuscitation methods for half an hour without success.

Central District Ambulance took the body to Sydney Hospital.

31 May 1943 – Boy Drowned In Links Lake – Trove

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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 3 June 1949 (No.90), page 1538

APPOINTMENTS.

 

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the appointment to the rank of Acting Inspector of Police of the following Sergeants 1st Class on and

from the date indicated in each case:—

Alexander John Steel—15th March, 1949.

Edward Ernest Bezer—20th March, 1949.

Henry Brown—14th May, 1949.

Edgar Roy Shaw—26th May, 1949.

03 Jun 1949 – APPOINTMENTS. – Trove

 

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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),

Friday 14 October 1949 (No.194), page 3016

APPOINTMENTS.

Premier’s Department.

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council has approved of the—

Cancellation of the appointment of Superintendent 2nd Class David Fraser as Superintendent of Traffic, on and from the 1st September, 1949.

Appointment of Superintendent 3rd Class Walter Richard Lawrence as Superintendent pursuant to the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 6 of the Metropolitan Traffic Act, 1900, as amended, to be known as the Superintendent of Traffic, such appointment to take effect as on and from the 1st September, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the confirmation in the rank of Inspector 3rd Class of the following Acting Inspectors of Police,— on and from the date indicated in each case:—

Alexander John Steel, 15th June, 1949;

Edward Ernest Bezer, 20th June, 1949;

Henry Brown, 19th July, 1949;

Edgar Roy Shaw, 26th August, 1949.

JAMES McGIRR, Premier.

14 Oct 1949 – APPOINTMENTS. – Trove

 

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Monday  25 June 1951   p3

Policeman Drops Dead

Police – Inspector Edward Ernest Bezer, 57, of Lea Avenue, Willoughby, dropped dead while walking with his wife to catch a tram at Spit Junction, Mosman, late on Saturday night.

He was stationed at North Sydney until recently, and went on long-service leave before retirement because of a heart affection. He had 35 years’ police service.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18220726

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Tuesday  26 June 1951   p18

BEZER -The Relatives and friends of the late EDWARD ERNEST BEZER ( TED ) of No 8 Lea Avenue, Willoughby, are kindly invited to attend his Funeral ; to leave Christ Church, Lavender Bay. This Day at 10.45 o’clock for the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.  A service will commence at 10.30 a.m.

MOTOR FUNERALS LIMITED

A FDA

3B9 Pacific Highway

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18218776

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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),

Saturday 7 July 1951, page 10

IN the Will of EDWARD ERNEST BEZER late of Lea Avenue, Willoughby in the State of New South Wales, Inspector of Police, deceased.

Application will be made after 14 days from the publication hereof that Probate of the last Will and Testament dated the 25th July, 1933 of the abovenamed deceased, may be granted to Kathleen Emiline Bezer the Executrix named in the said Will and all notices may be served at the undermentioned address.

All creditors in the Estate of the deceased are hereby required to send in particulars of their claims to the undersigned N. D. THOMAS, Proctor for the Applicant, 51 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

 

07 Jul 1951 – Advertising – Trove

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Wednesday  24 June 1953   p28

IN the Will of EDWARD ERNEST BEZER late of Lea Avenue, Willoughby in the State of New South Wales, Inspector of Police, deceased.

Application will be made after 14 days from the publication hereof that Probate of the last Will and Testament dated the 25th July, 1933 of the abovenamed deceased, may be granted to Kathleen Emiline Bezer the Executrix named in the said Will And all notices may be served at the undermentioned address.  All creditors In the Estate of the deceased are hereby required to send in particulars of their claims to the undersigned

N D THOMAS Proctor for the

Applicant, 51 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18223796/1066111#

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Wednesday  24 June 1953   p28

BEZER – In memory of my loved husband and father Edward Ernest ( Ted ) Bezer who passed away June 24 1951

Today I am thinking of someone

With love that Is fond and true

Someone I loved very dearly

Ted that someone Is you

Inserted by his loving wife Kathleen and son Ted

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18367326

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Friday  25 June 1954   p22

BEZER. – In loving memory of my dear husband, Edward Ernest ( Ted ) Bezer, who passed away June 24, 1951.

Although I smile and seem carefree.

Nobody misses you more than me.

Always remembered by his wife, Kit, and son, Ted.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18441781

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ROOTSWEB

Author: hughsie_72
Surnames: BEZER
Classification: biography

Message Board URL:

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Message Board Post:

Hi,
Edward Ernest Bezer was born in 1893 to parents Edward Bezer ( my Grandfather ) and Emily Mooney.

At the time of Edward Ernest’s death on the 24th June 1951 he was an Inspector of Police at Mosman, N.S.W.

Edward Ernest married Kathleen Emmeline Edwards in 1913 at St. Leonards, N.S.W.

Kathleen died on the 21st September 1962 and her parents are named as William Edwards and Annie O’Rielly on her death certificate.

She is reported as having been born in Goulburn, N.S.W.

Son Edward’s age is reported as 19 on his father’s death certificate of 1951, by his Uncle Henry Richard Bezer.

Strawberry Hill is now known as Surrey Hills.

Edward Ernest snr.’s father Edward was born 12 July 1862 in Blues Point, North Sydney and died 17 June 1922.

His first wife Emily Mooney was born in 1863 in Sydney and died in St. Leonards on the 22 April 1903.

Emily and Edward had 4 children Leslie, Irene Isabel, Harry Richard and Ernest Edward.

His second wife was Rachel Collins, married 31 December 1906 in Sydney.

They had two children, Keiven Edward and Ina Philomena.

Rachel died 1st. June 1926.

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