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Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Inspr. Reginald A. Garner) with the original named forwarding...
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Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Inspr. Reginald A. Garner) with the original named forwarding slip from the Ministry of Transport, dated 18 February 1952, extremely fine £50-£70 --- Reginald Atkins Garner was born in the village of Lymm on 18 September 1894, the eldest son of Thomas Henry Garner, Inspector of Police for Cheshire. Educated at Verdin Technical School at Winsford, he is recorded in 1911 as a draughtsman’s apprentice living at Sale Police Station. He joined the London and North West Railway as an apprentice on 9 April 1912, and five years later became Inspector in the Detective department at Crewe Station. Appointed Railway Detective Inspector at Sheffield in 1939, he was made Detective Inspector with the British Transport Commission Police at Crewe in 1951; he died in Crewe in 1980. Sold with a fine array of private research, including copies of 19 newspaper reports mentioning the recipient, mainly in connection with theft on the railways, but also the arrest of a Chinese gang at Crewe Station for armed robbery.
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Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Inspr. Reginald A. Garner) with the original named forwarding slip from the Ministry of Transport, dated 18 February 1952, extremely fine £50-£70 --- Reginald Atkins Garner was born in the village of Lymm on 18 September 1894, the eldest son of Thomas Henry Garner, Inspector of Police for Cheshire. Educated at Verdin Technical School at Winsford, he is recorded in 1911 as a draughtsman’s apprentice living at Sale Police Station. He joined the London and North West Railway as an apprentice on 9 April 1912, and five years later became Inspector in the Detective department at Crewe Station. Appointed Railway Detective Inspector at Sheffield in 1939, he was made Detective Inspector with the British Transport Commission Police at Crewe in 1951; he died in Crewe in 1980. Sold with a fine array of private research, including copies of 19 newspaper reports mentioning the recipient, mainly in connection with theft on the railways, but also the arrest of a Chinese gang at Crewe Station for armed robbery.
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