The following officers were dismissed from the City of London Police because of their participation in the police strike that started on 1st August 1919, or, as the Chief Clerk at Old Jewry (the force’s Chief Office at that time) put it:
“The Commissioner has dismissed from the Force the undermentioned Sergeants and Constables, with forfeiture of all pay due, for withdrawing themselves rom duty and being considered unfit to discharge the duties of Constables”.
Date of Dismissal and name of officer:
1st August 1919
PC 167C John Zollner
PC 79A Walter Teasdale
PC 162A James Long
PC 199A Wiliam Brown
PS 14B George Blackburn
PC 67B Walter Cross
PC 294B Mark Sutton
PC 88C Thomas Butchers
PC 95C William Lock
PC 102C Henry Smeaton
PC 133C Frank Guppy
PC 142C Henry Smith
PC 218C Archibald Wells
PC 251C Charles Stone
PC 252C George Simmons
PC 274C Robert Doyle
PC 281C Thomas Pemberton
PC 29C Wiliam Maes
PC 303C Frederick Osborn
PC 195D Augustus Filbey
PC 95A William Smith
PC 96A Herbert Tyler
PC 144A John Hanks
PC 155A Robert Jobson
PC 248A George Long
PC 249A Henry Carter
2nd August 1919
PC 91A John Prisgrove
PC 171A Sidney Rupert Taylor
PC 270B Alfred Harris
PC 299B Edward Bateman
PC 67C Elgar Bulgin
PC 93C John Hopkins
PC 106C John Harding
PC 125C Arthur Shepherd
PC 157C Wiliam Wakelin
PC 187C William Cawkill
PC 212C William Buchanan
PC 227C Ernest Claxton
PC 229C John Taylor
PC 238C Arthur Wilson
PC 261C Walter Green
PC 289C Robert Dale
PC 309D Arthur Foster
3rd August 1919
PC 125B George Harper
PC 288B Thomas Tilbury
PS 28C Ernest Crawley
PC 94C Ralph Potter
PC 101C James Harvey
PC 103C Edward Spink
PC 109C Arthur Gray
PC 124C James Edwards
PC 128C Tom Dobbs
PC 147C Alfred James
PC 169C David Moyler
PC 211C Francis Cridge
PC 297C Arthur Jones
PC 276D Adolphus Cranfield
4th August 1919
PC 199D Cann