Census 1939

I have been trying to work out for several years who was in the Constabulary when the census’s were taken. Let’s say it is an ongoing project to fill in all the gaps, so if you can help that would be great ! 

Knowing officers, careers, ranks, personal numbers, locations etc has helped to identify many in photographs I have. I will be updating  this page to show who was in the Constabulary at the times, the censuses were taken, going backwards in time from 1939 to 1861.

1939 CENSUS.

 Compiled around October 10th, so the Government knew who was in the country and where everyone was. Here are the senior ranks of the Dorset Constabulary. These officers were not issued with personal numbers.

CC   YATES LIONEL HQ 25/05/1888 51
             
DEPUTY   BARRETT ALFRED HQ 23/12/1884 54
             
SUPTS   SWAIN JOSEPH POOLE 04/03/1882 57
    LOVELL ARTHUR DORCHESTER 17/07/1885 54
    CHERRETT JOSEPH SHERBORNE 06/06/1885 54
    DARK JOHN WIMBORNE 20/03/1889 50
    CARTER FRED BRIDPORT 19/02/1890 49
    CARTER THOMAS WEYMOUTH 23/06/1892 47
             
INSPS   KNIGHT ARTHUR DORCHESTER 15/02/1899 38
    HOWE FRANK POOLE 07/09/1889 38
    PAGE ERNEST M POOLE 02/04/1895 42
    FOSTER ALICK E SHAFTESBURY 21/02/1894 43
    DRAKE WALTER R PORTLAND 14/02/1887 52
    BURROUGH WILLIAM BLANDFORD 19/01/1892 47
    GRAY GEORGE S DORCHESTER 16/11/1903 35
    MARTYN HENRY WEYMOUTH 08 or 10/10/1895 44
    LOVELACE PERCY DORCHESTER 09/07/1894 45
    GALPIN WILLIAM EDWIN WEYMOUTH 03/10/1882 57
    BURT GEORGE E WAREHAM 17/12/1887 51

SGT’S

Lots of information still required on their personal numbers, which will be shown when known in the first column. Additional information maybe shown to say when they were promoted to Sgt.   They are listed from oldest to youngest.

  DIMENT GEORGE C K BRIDPORT 30/11/1888 50
3 HOWE FRANK POOLE 07/09/1889 50
  CLOTHIER GEORGE WIMBORNE 16/01/1890 49
  JONES WILLIAM J WEYMOUTH 06/05/1892 47
  LILL HARRY WEYMOUTH 03/11/1892 46
  SMITH WILFRED E BEAMINSTER 29/11/1892 46
 5 MALKIN FRED WAREHAM 13/12/1892 46
  PAINTER ARTHUR G STURMINSTER N 16/12/1892 46
  OSMAN SIDNEY SHAFTESBURY 17/03/1893 46
  FRANKLIN FRED P POOLE 07/08/1893 46
  WHITE ARTHUR AUGUS BROADSTONE 14/01/1894 45
  LONG WILLIAM R PORTLAND 16/02/1894 45
  CLARKE FRANK LYME REGIS 19/02/1894 45
  SWATRIDGE CECIL SHERBORNE 18/05/1895 44
23 WOOD REGINALD BLANDFORD 12/06/1895 44
  HALLETT HENRY PARKSTONE 09/08/1895 44
May-39 JEANS SIDNEY CERNE ABBAS 27/10/1895 43
Apr-39 GOODCHILD AUGUSTUS HERB BRIDPORT 19/12/1896 42
  NEAL HAROLD POOLE 29/12/1896 42
  BLAKEMAN DAVID WIMBORNE 03/07/1897 42
19 TAYLOR CHARLES DORCHESTER 30/06/1897 42
  GRANT ERNEST WEYMOUTH 22/02/1898 41
  HEGGS JAMES R WEYMOUTH 24/04/1898 41
  DANN FRED SWANAGE 29/04/1898 41
  SPILLER REGINALD BOURNE VALLEY 25/05/1898 41
Apr-39 LOVELACE ARCHIBOLD J SHERBORNE 07/05/1899 40
  CHASE WILFRED F DORCHESTER 25/06/1899 40
36 FUDGE ALEC SWANAGE 28/02/1900 39
1 SWATRIDGE VICTOR W DORCHESTER 14/10/1901 37
Oct-38 STICKLEY ARTHUR BLANDFORD 28/10/1901 37
  BLUES REGINALD WEYMOUTH 27/06/1903 36
Feb-38 LOVELL HARRY DORCHESTER 29/11/1903 35
  MARSH ERNEST ALBERT W POOLE 11/02/1904 35
  CONWAY THOMAS A DORCHESTER 02/06/1906 34
  ELMES FRANK DORCHESTER 08/10/1906 33
Apr-39 ROSSITER ALBERT ERNEST DORCHESTER 10/10/1908 30
38 CHASE ALFRED WALTER  CRANBORNE  11/06/1893  46

CONSTABLES

1 SIMS OSCAR BRIDPORT 19/03/1898 41
2 CONWAY ARTHUR BERTRAM BUCKLAND NEWTON 25/08/1908 31
3 DIXON HARRY J WEYMOUTH 15/03/1892 47
4 ARKELL CLEMENT JACK STURMINSTER N 27/02/1895 44
5          
6 ASH JACK WEYMOUTH DC 09/08/1915 24
7 BRUTON CECIL CLAUDE DORCHESTER 27/02/1895 44
8 FALL ALBERT POOLE 07/07/1907 32
9 DYER GEORGE E WEYMOUTH 03/05/1895 44
10 FOOT JAMES A WYKE WHITEHEADS 06/04/1898 41
11 SYMONDS HOWARD O E WEYMOUTH 09/02/1911 28
12 STANDFIELD CHAS THOMAS SHAFTESBURY 05/01/1910 29
14 EASTMENT SAMUEL TARRANT HINTON 07/07/1897 42
15 WILLS REGINALD L DORCHESTER 10/11/1909 29
16          
17 GRAY JACK BRIDPORT 07/12/1912 26
18 BATTRICK REGINALD C DORCHESTER 23/05/1907 32
19 STAINER FRANCIS HERBERT LYME REGIS 20/06/1891 48
20 BEALING WILLIAM B PARKSTONE 20/10/1896 42
21          
22 DUNFORD ALBERT EDWIN WEYMOUTH 13/02/1916 23
23          
24 STURGESS ALFRED E WAREHAM 03/06/1908 31
25 BAIGENT CHARLES JOHN SHAFTESBURY 13/03/1913 26
26          
27 BISHOP ARTHUR HARRY SWANAGE 28/08/1918 21
28 PHARE CYRIL H WEYMOUTH 15/06/1916 23
29 HAINES HARRY BLANDFORD 23/02/1905 34
30          
31 STAPLES BERTIE POOLE DC 09/11/1911 27
32 TREVETT  JOHN EDWARD PORTLAND 10/08/1907 32
33 ASTON RICHARD WM T DORCHESTER 01/03/1906 33
34 LAKE SAMUEL JOHN YETMINSTER 01/05/1892 47
35 HOLCOMBE ALBERT R POOLE 12/09/1907 32
36 HANN  HAROLD LESLIE DORCHESTER 27/03/1907 32
37 CROSS REGINALD DOUGLAS LONGBURTON 18/08/1897 40
38 BLANDAMER DOUGLAS P SHERBORNE 22/05/1907 32
39 ARCHER ROBERT J PORTLAND 05/02/1906 33
40 HIBBS RONALD M DORCHESTER 21/10/1913 25
41          
42 BEVISS ERNEST JAMES WAREHAM 01/06/1896 43
43 KING JOHN G WEYMOUTH 04/02/1904 35
44 WITT JOHN STURMINSTER MARSHALL 22/06/1898 41
45 TOLLEY WALTER EDWARD STURMINSTER NEWTON AREA 02/08/1891 48
46 DUGDALE ALFRED GEO T WITCHAMPTON 05/02/1902 37
47 MOWLEM HENRY G WEST MOORS 28/04/1898 41
48 TRICKEY ROY DORCHESTER 19/05/1910 29
49 LOADER ARTHUR HENRY BLANDFORD 01/04/1908 31
50 GRAY EDMUND BADEN BLANDFORD 18/09/1900 39
51          
52 SMITH BERTRAM VICTOR CORFE MULLEN 22/12/1912 26
53 STICKLEY REGINALD BEAMINSTER 27/01/1904 35
54 SYMONS WILLIAM C SWANAGE 03/03/1909 30
55 WILLIAMS JOSEPH POOLE 02/04/1915 24
56 JEANES WALTER OAKDALE,POOLE 03/08/1897 42
57 MITCHELL GERALD CLIFFORD WEST BAY,BRIDPORT 19/10/1911 27
58 CHILDE FRANK G J SHERBORNE 04/02/1913 26
59 HABGOOD THOMAS BLANDFORD 14/08/1916 23
60 BROADWEY ELWYN R cannot find    
61 JAY BASIL WARREN CHICKERELL,WEYMOUTH 20/10/1887 51
62 BURT REGINALD C G ALDERHOLT 25/11/1893 45
63 WEBB WILLIAM LONGHAM 04/04/1900 39
64          
65 RUSHEN ERNEST WEYMOUTH 27/01/1914 25
66 PEACH GEORGE SHERBORNE 22/02/1885 54
67 WALLER CLIFFORD D PORTLAND 29/04/1898 41
68 LEWIS RONALD W BRANKSOME 19/07/1916 23
69 CRABB EDWIN F WEYMOUTH 25/07/1903 36
70 CRUMPLER SIDNEY ARTHUR WIMBORNE 15/12/1898 40
71 NORRIS FRED POOLE 08/10/1893 45
72 ALFORD WILLIAM BRANKSOME 08/11/1898 40
73 BAIGENT RICHARD WEYMOUTH 03/07/1910 29
74 JACKSON ARTHUR AUGUS BLANDFORD 07/01/1916 23
75 ASHMAN ARTHUR HY ABBOTSBURY 24/12/1897 41
76 FUDGE RONALD BRIDPORT 25/05/1907 32
77  MALKIN  FRED ALAN  HQ  10/10/1920 19 
78 WOOLFORD FRED WM POOLE AREA 15/01/1911 28
79 RUSSELL RAYMOND F DORCHESTER 08/05/1916 23
80          
81 PAULLEY HERBERT STALBRIDGE 02/03/1894 45
82 MANNELL ARTHUR M WEYMOUTH 05/12/1892 46
83 MOORE STANLEY ALBERT J BEAMINSTER 26/12/1904 34
84 TREVETT  REGINALD C BRIDPORT 26/04/1899 40
85 CARTER ROBERT J WEYMOUTH 17/05/1895 44
86 HOPKINS ROBERT WM WIMBORNE 14/03/1909 30
87 MORETON EDWARD C SWANAGE 25/02/1898 41
88 MARGRIE GEORGE C PUDDLETOWN 12/08/1889 40
89 SAMWAYS GEORGE CHAS WINFRITH 20/03/1899 40
90 WATKINS FRED J J PARKSTONE 26/01/1917 22
91 BOWRING REUBEN W EAST STOUR  14/03/1894 45
92 HOBBS ALBERT VICTOR CHARMINSTER 21/06/1894 45
93 CHASE REGINALD STURMINSTER N 18/12/1896 42
94          
95 MANUEL THOMAS PARKSTONE 14/05/1905 34
96 OLIVER CHARLES DORCHESTER 16/02/1896 43
97 SQUIBB FRED G CRANBORNE 29/08/1897 42
98 CLAPP RALPH STANLEY CANFORD CLIFFS /LILIPUT 27/05/1915 24
99 BISHOP FRANCIS GEORGE WIMBORNE 11/05/1906 33
100 PARSONS FRED G WAREHAM AREA 25/10/1905 33
101          
102 HOUSE VERNON STUDLAND 26/03/1893 46
103 POWELL FRANK BOURNE VALLEY 01/05/1908 31
104 KING THOMAS KINGTON MAGNA 08/02/1898 41
105 OSBORNE ARTHUR BRIDPORT 22/08/1905 34
106 PARSONS KENNETH BLANDFORD 02/06/1897 42
107 CHAPPLE WILLIAM PORTLAND 02/09/1904 35
108 FORSEY THOMAS HERB POOLE 08/04/1897 42
109 SPREADBURY FRANCIS JOHN WAREHAM 06/02/1894 45
110 CHARD CYRIL HAMWORTHY 01/12/1897 41
111 LUFF CECIL H DORCHESTER 20/01/1912 27
112 JANES LESLIE J BOURNE VALLEY 10/06/1917 22
113 BARNES FRANK LIONEL BROADMAYNE 14/10/1898 40
114 CULLEY JOHN W WIMBORNE 25/03/1904 35
115 RUSHEN CHARLES BRIDPORT DC 05/05/1912 27
116 BAKER HORACE HOLT 05/05/1900 39
117 CHASE HORACE BISHOPS CAUNDLE 28/06/1899 40
118 KNIGHT GEORGE W  POWERSTOCK 09/07/1893 46
119 BAILEY WALTER HY BLANDFORD 23/08/1893 46
120 CROSS COLIN R BRIDPORT 28/06/1904 35
121 COLTART FRANK POOLE 04/10/1911 27
122          
123 MASTERS GEORGE HENRY CATTISTOCK 29/01/1896 43
124 KERLEY ERNEST F WEYMOUTH 20/09/1914 25
125          
126 DUNFORD EDWIN F WEYMOUTH 13/02/1916 23
127          
128          
129 RAWLINGS GEORGE WALTER EAST STOUR  19/01/1894 45
130 MACCARTY GEORGE PARKSTONE 23/05/1907 32
131          
132          
133 TITT/PITT ERNEST W BRANKSOME 10/09/1898 41
134 MASSEY WYNDHAM BEAMINSTER   12/11/1894 44
135 HARVELL ARTHUR REG WINTERBORNE WHITCHURCH 29/03/1894 45
136 KEEPING IVOR F STOBOROUGH 19/03/1916 23
137 MASTERS FREDERICK      
138          
139 COLBORNE  NORMAN SHAFTESBURY 06/03/1917 22
140 PULLMAN WILLIAM CHARLES BOURNE VALLEY 23/09/1888 41
141 HILLIER WILLIAM J  WOOL 14/12/1903 35
142 LILLINGTON GEORGE REDVERS SHAFTESBURY 29/04/1900 39
143          
144 CLARKE ARTHUR E SHAFTESBURY 23/09/1895 44
145 GIBBS WALTER LAWRENCE PARKSTONE 31/05/1913 26
146 DAVIS WALTER EDWIN BLANDFORD 20/01/1910 39
147 TUCKER ALBERT W CHARMOUTH 08/02/1894 45
148 PAYNE FRANK E WEYMOUTH 23/09/1906 33
149          
150 HOPTOFF RONALD SWANAGE 25/07/1911 28
151 PARSONS CYRIL EAST MORDEN 25/05/1908 31
152 BRYER FRED JOHN WEYMOUTH 04/10/1901 37
153          
154 BATTSON THOMAS G BLANDFORD 01/04/1914 25
155 MORRIS HENRY W BRANKSOME 22/04/1914 25
156          
157 RIGGS ROBERT MELBURY ABBAS 11/01/1888 51
158 CHARLTON GEORGE RAY SHERBORNE 26/03/1893 46
159 DUNFORD SAMUEL LESLIE WEYMOUTH 25/09/1910 29
160 SHELDRAKE HARRY/HENRY WEYMOUTH DC 01/06/1904 35
161          
162 BUGBY WILLIAM NETHER COMPTON 03/11/1901 38
163 LEGG DOUGLAS J DORCHESTER 29/08/1912 27
164 BOOL ROBERT WEYMOUTH 14/06/1891 48
165 SARTIN ERNEST CHIDEOCK 20/05/1894 45
166 COOMBS ALAN J bere regis ? 21/05/1901 38
167          
168 TOOP WILLIAM CECIL CORSCOMBE 30/10/1893 45
169 ELLERY THOMAS W SHERBORNE 07/07/1897 42
170 DURANT ALFRED GEORGE POOLE 27/12/1893 45
171 MONTAGUE HAROLD JAMES MILBORNE ST ANDREW 30/01/1891 48
172 TREVISS GEORGE LILLIPUT 09/05/1895 46
173 LEGG MAURICE R FONTMELL MAGNA ? 11/05/1908 31
174 COWLING WILLIAM POOLE 28/09/1910 29
175 RIDOUT ARTHUR W POOLE 20/06/1915 24
176          
177          
178 GEE JOHN W POOLE 15/09/1895 46
179 CLARKE FRANCIS WIMBORNE AREA 24/05/1904 35
180          
181 NORTHOVER CHARLES EAST LULWORTH 01/03/1896 43
182          
183 CLIST JACK LYME REGIS 08/09/1906 33
184 POWELL ERIC CECIL TOM      
185 SWATRIDGE HAROLD POOLE 03/11/1906 32
186 WILKINS FRED GEORGE BRANKSOME 12/10/1897 41
187 WOODSFORD ALF GEORGE SPETISBURY ? 31/08/1909 30
188          
189 HINDLEY GILBERT J BOB DORCHESTER 22/11/1909 29
190 BUGLER FRANK LODERS 22/07/1896 43
191 ARNOLD ALBERT ENOS LONGHAM 03/02/1899 40
192 SKINNER WILLIAM H CATTISTOCK 08/03/1913 26
193 FUDGE CHARLES POOLE DC 25/06/1902 37
194 HABGOOD DENNIS WEYMOUTH 16/02/1920 19
195 CUTLER WILLIAM R CORFE CASTLE 08/02/1904 35
196 WILLIS EDWARD    WAREHAM 07/06/1905 34
197 OTTER CHARLES WEYMOUTH 27/11/1907 31
198 HITCHMAN WILLIAM JAMES FRAMPTON 03/02/1906 33
199 BLUES CHARLES POOLE 02/07/1904 35
200 BLUES HENRY PORTLAND 14/11/1906 32
201 GEAR LESLIE J H POOLE 28/06/1901 38
202 APPLIN WILLIAM GEORGE STURMINSTER N 09/04/1908 31
203 LANNING WILLIAM G DORCHESTER 21/08/1911 28
204 MORRIS STANLEY T WEYMOUTH 21/05/1916 23
205 HABGOOD WILLIAM G CERNE ABBAS 30/06/1909 30
206 DOO WILLIAM A G BROADWINSOR 24/01/1908 31
207 MOORE HARRY WEYMOUTH 25/02/1911 28
208          
209 WHITE WALTER HENRY WEYMOUTH 09/07/1902 37
210 TITT CHARLES POOLE 09/01/1905 34
211 BAILEY ALBERT GEORGE POOLE 05/07/1894 45
212 CORBEN HARRY OKEFORD FITZPAINE 07/01/1890 49
213 IVAMY ARTHUR C H PRESTON 24/12/1891 47
214 FISH IVOR TOM PIDDLETRENTHIDE 19/09/1896 42
215 BOGGUST ALFRED L POOLE 26/01/1908 31
216 HARRIS HAROLD E POOLE 19/01/1903 36
217          
218 REEVES  ALBERT W POOLE 03/03/1902 37
219 LAMBERT THOMAS H MORETON 08/11/1911 27
220          
221 ALLUM PETER EDWIN D WEYMOUTH 23/03/1918 21
222          
223          
224          
225          
226          
227 SAVAGE HENRY BLANDFORD 20/06/1914  
228 GURD WILLIAM CHARLES BLANDFORD 08/07/1914  
229          
230          
231 STEVENS RONALD J WEYMOUTH 27/04/1914 25
232          
233 BOSTON HERBERT LESLIE DORCHESTER 23/12/1914 24
234          
235          
236          
237          
238          
239          
240 WHEATCROFT RAYMOND   RECRUIT 16/02/1920 19

Other serving constables but personal numbers not known.

  TOLLEY WALTER EDWARD STURMINSTER AREA 02/08/1891 48 JOINED 1914 B4 WW1
  GENTLE REGINALD ROBERT W/BORNE STEEPLETON 07/02/1902 37 JOINED LATE 1924
  FUDGE LESLIE HANLEY ? 04/08/1904 35 JOINED 1930
  167 156,94, 161  his poss number !      
  HARVEY EDWARD P PURBECK AREA 18/01/1908 31  
  LUGG HENRY DORCHESTER 29/08/1912 27  
  DUNFORD GILBERT H SHERBORNE 27/02/1913 26  
  KING WILLIAM E J DORCHESTER 31/03/1913 26  
  GRANT FRED R POOLE 21/05/1913 26  
  LOCK LESLIE RECRUIT 28/08/1914 25 RAF
  TAYLOR LESLIE K DORCHESTER 29/08/1914 25  
  READ WILLIAM GEORGE MARTINSTOWN 26/01/1915 24  
  QUINE GEORGE WHITEHEADS 17/02/1915 24  
  HASKELL HERBERT PORTLAND 18/03/1915 24  
  JAMES REG HUGH VIC DORCHESTER 01/08/1915 24 NUMBER IN 120’S
  MOORE MAURICE A WEYMOUTH 14/01/1916 23  
  WHITE JAMES H WIMBORNE 08/02/1916 23  
  DREW MAURICE A WEYMOUTH 03/03/1916 23  
  BARTLETT HAROLD POOLE 19/03/1916 23  
  SHIPTON RICHARD POOLE 24/04/1916 23  
  CROSS HENRY J PIDDLEHINTON OR POOLE 24/04/1916 23 LT RA   DIED WW2
  WEST GEORGE Herbert BRIDPORT 30/04/1916 23 married oscar sims daughter 1942
  DREDGE JAMES EDWARD ? 16/06/1916 23  
  PARK ERNEST E RECRUIT 31/07/1916 23  
  SMITH LAURENCE RECRUIT 18/07/1917 22  
  WIGHTMAN THOMAS R SWANAGE 06/10/1917 21  
  CROSS WILLIAM EDWARD SWANAGE 14/04/1918 21 DIED WW2 ?
  MANLEY WALTER WHITEHEADS 05/05/1918 21  
  BROWN CYRIL WHITEHEADS 09/10/1918 20  
  BOOL DENIS BRANKSOME 08/12/1918 20  
  BENNETT ROBERT J POOLE 02/06/1918 20 POSS PC 21 OR 121 RAF
  WALKER STANLEY A POOLE 04/01/1919 20  
  CONNOR ALFRED A H SHAFTESBURY 19/12/1919 19  
  SMITH LAURENCE WHITEHEADS 28/12/2019 19  
  HIBBS RAY RECRUIT 21/09/1920 19  
  MALKIN FREDERICK RECRUIT 10/10/1920 18  
  HEAD NORMAN E WEYMOUTH 18/12/1920 18  
  CARTER NEVILLE JACK WIMBORNE/WEYMOUTH IN 1922 17 JOINED 17 JULY 1939