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Three: Police Constable J. Hayers, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropo...
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Three: Police Constable J. Hayers, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C, J. Hayers. A. Divn.) surname re-engraved; Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. J. Hayers. A. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., J. Hayers.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- James Hayers was born at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, on 1 July 1862. He joined Scotland Yard on 28 April 1884, attached “B” Division, and is recorded in the contemporary press for arresting a man in Chapel Street, Westminster, in December of that year: 'Oswald Fussell (28), student of medicine and preacher in the Salvation Army was charged at the Westminster Police Court on Wednesday with being drunk, riotous and making use of obscene language. Constable Hayers (606B) proved that the prisoner was drunk on Tuesday afternoon. He had a crowd round him. He was wearing a jersey marked Salvation Army. He talked about religion, hit out right and left with his crutch and used filthy language.' Transferred to “A” Division in April 1886, Hayers remained in the service of the Metropolitan Police for a further 26 years, resigning on 2 May 1910. He retired to Amersham. Sold with copied research, including the recipient's Metropolitan Police Service Record.
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Three: Police Constable J. Hayers, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C, J. Hayers. A. Divn.) surname re-engraved; Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. J. Hayers. A. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., J. Hayers.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- James Hayers was born at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, on 1 July 1862. He joined Scotland Yard on 28 April 1884, attached “B” Division, and is recorded in the contemporary press for arresting a man in Chapel Street, Westminster, in December of that year: 'Oswald Fussell (28), student of medicine and preacher in the Salvation Army was charged at the Westminster Police Court on Wednesday with being drunk, riotous and making use of obscene language. Constable Hayers (606B) proved that the prisoner was drunk on Tuesday afternoon. He had a crowd round him. He was wearing a jersey marked Salvation Army. He talked about religion, hit out right and left with his crutch and used filthy language.' Transferred to “A” Division in April 1886, Hayers remained in the service of the Metropolitan Police for a further 26 years, resigning on 2 May 1910. He retired to Amersham. Sold with copied research, including the recipient's Metropolitan Police Service Record.
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