Samuel Ballard

Police Officer's Record of Service
Full Name Samuel BALLARD
Date Appointed 25th October 1858
Collar Number 87
Date of Discharge 1st July 1878
Promotions

Appointed 3rd Class Constable 25th October 1858

Promoted to 2nd Class Constable 29th November 1858

Promoted to 1st Class Constable 25th July 1859

Pay increased to 21/- per week from the 14th April 1862

Postings

Posted to Stoke Goldington (N) 11th November 1858

Posted to Wolverton (N) 24th November 1858

Posted to Aylesbury (C) 5th April 1868

Posted to Haddenham (C) December 1867

Posted to High Wycombe (SW) 12th July 1869

Posted to Winslow (N) 13th May 1871

Posted to Whaddon 3rd August 1871

Remarks
Age
Height
Visage
Complexion
Eyes
Hair
Build
Born
Trade
Status
Children
Residence
Previous Police Service
Employed By
36 years
Five feet Eleven inches
Full
Fresh
Grey
Dark
Stout
Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Labourer
Married
Four
Polesworth, Warwickshire
Two years
Chief Constable Warwickshire - Barford, Warwickshire
Notes:-

Chief Constable's Office, Aylesbury, 23rd February 1863.

Police Constable 87 Samuel Ballard is reduced to ordinary pay of a 1st Class Constable for making a false entry in his journal and general carelessness.

Signed W. H. Carter Chief Constable

Chief Constable's Office, Aylesbury, 18th May 1868.

Police Constable 87 Samuel Ballard is fined 2/6 for missing a conference point at 6am in the 13th instant.

Signed J.C.T. Drake. Chief Constable.

Chief Constable's Office, Aylesbury, 21st July 1868.

Police Constable 87 Samuel Ballard is fined 2/6 for missing his conference point at 6am on the 15th July.

Signed J.C.T. Drake. Chief Constable.

Chief Constable's Office, Aylesbury, 19th May 1869.

Police Constable 87 Samuel Ballard is fined 4/- for being absent from his conference point on the 9th instant and for making a false entry in his journal and not sending in his explanation when ordered to do so.

Signed J.C.T. Drake, Chief Constable.

Chief Constable's Office, Aylesbury, 1st July 1878.

Police Constable 87 Samuel Ballard having been found medically unfit for further service and having this day been granted a Pension of £32 per annum by the Court of Quarter Sessions is struck off the strength of the force from this date.

Signed John C.T. Drake, Chief Constable.

Samuel Ballard died on the 1st September 1897.


**Records on this officer are complete**

Details were taken from the ‘Record of Service’ and ‘General Order’ books


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