| Surname: | Weedon |
| Initials: | A H |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/3131 |
| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 16/10/16. He enlisted in the MMP 23/5/16 age 31.6 years, occupation Police Constable, home address: 134 Lambeth Road, London SE. Served Home 23/5/16 to 15/10/16, BEF 16/10/16 to 17/8/19, Home 18/8/19 to 15/9/19 to class Z reserve. Previously served in the RAMC (TF) 6 months and the ASC (TF) 5 months. 19/8/1919 shown as receiving £2 on the Crystal Palace Demobilization Acquittance Roll. Arthur Horace Weedon. Extract from the Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 7/6/1917. Policemen - Soldiers. The announcement that two more police officers of the Luton Borough Police Force have volunteered for military service affords the opportunity for considering the number of them who have gone from the Luton Borough and County Divisional Forces into the army including the latest volunteers, PC's Geo. Standbridge and John H Wood is fourteen. With the exception of these two and PC Cooper all are on foreign service. They are as follows:- L/Cpl Herbert Taylor, Pte T H Franklin, L/Cpl Geo. Carter, all of the Military Foot Police; Cpl Arthur H Weedon, Military Mounted Police. Extract from the Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle 15 April 1926. NEW LUTON POLICE SERGEANT. PC Weedon Promoted. To Fill the vacancy caused by the retirement on pension of Police Sergeant E Janes from the Luton Borough Police Force, the watch committee have promoted PC Weedon to the rank of Sergeant, the promotion to take effect later in the month. The new sergeant has upwards of sixteen years service to his credit, having been appointed on April 1st, 1910, but his period has been broken by four years in the Army. Joining the RASC, PC W Weedon transferred to the Military Police and for three and a half years was a corporal in the Mounted Police with the third cavalry division in France and Belgium. The promotion was not altogether unexpected for PC Weedon has earned distinction on more than one occasion in the discharge of his duties. Shortly before midnight on June 11th, 1923, he was trying shop doors in New Bedford Road and was not satisfied with the way in which the street door on 21a a lock up stationery and tobacco shop, was fastened. His investigations led to the discovery of three men inside and with assistance, all were arrested an conveyed to the police station. One received a long term of imprisonment and two were bound over and the officer concerned was commended by the chairman of the Beds Quarter Sessions, the Borough magistrates and the Watch Committee, the later awarding him the merit badge. Within sic months PC Weedon earned further commendation for the arrest of a young man found behind a bathroom door of a house in course of erection in London Road. The prisoner was committed to the Quarter Sessions on a charge of being in possession of house breaking implements by night and sentenced to six months hard labour. PC Weedon has also appeared as a witness in many other important prosecutions an takes a keen interest in all that appertains to the Force. Article has a photograph of PC Weedon in police uniform. |