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Hampstead Police Force

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British History Online provides a quite detailed history of the police force and where it was located.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hampstead Police Force

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Parish Lock-up

Parish Lock-up About 1730, this lock-up was built into the garden wall of Ca...

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Watch House

British History Online points out that this plaque incorrectly names the Hamp...

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Jack William Avery

Jack William Avery

War Reserve Constable who joined the Met Police on 3 September 1939.  He was based at the Hyde Park Police Station when he was murdered.  He was knifed by Frank Stephen Cobbett, a tramp who was rec...

Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy

1 memorial
RAF Squadron No. 61

RAF Squadron No. 61

It was first formed in Rochford, Essex as a fighter squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and disbanded in 1919. It was reformed in 1937 as a bomber squadron of the ...

Group, Armed Forces

1 memorial
Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham

Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham

Born Dublin. Known as ABC in the Navy. Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Med until 1942, first Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff by the end of the war. Managed the evacuation of Crete when the Ger...

Person, Armed Forces, Ireland

1 memorial
H. Arscott

H. Arscott

Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Sapper Henry Arscott was born on 31 March 1881 in Hampstead, the younger son of William and Frances Arscott. His father was a house painter. The 1881...

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Richard Stannard

Richard Stannard

Sailor. Born Richard Been Stannard. During the evacuation of Namsos in April to May 1940, his ship, HMT Arab survived thirty-one bombing attacks in five days. On one occasion, he and two of his cre...

Person, Armed Forces, Australia, Norway

1 memorial