Police - Various

Standing to attention at the rear of the police station, Trinity Street, Halstead during World War I, are six upstanding men. On the extreme left is Inspector Arthur John Willsmore, who joined the force on November 7th 1887 serving as an Inspector in the town between 1912 & 1919. He is holding a cannister or lamp which probably made news at the time as the gentleman on the far right is William Herbert Root, the editor of the Halstead Gazette. The sergent, in the center is Arthur Reynolds was was PS49 and held that rank at Halstead between 1913 & 1919.