Wpc Collection (page 7)

Woman police officer on duty for a parade
Woman police officer on duty with military men on horseback in a parade, and spectators behind a fence. Probably during the 1929 Met Police centenary celebrations in Hyde Park, London

Woman police officer Ethel Hilda Dry, London
Studio photo of Ethel Hilda Dry, an early woman police officer. She joined the force in July 1919, and is seen here wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year. Date: circa 1919

Woman police officer, Elsie G Hutchinson, London
An early woman police officer, Inspector Elsie G Hutchinson, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919. Date: 1919-1920

Woman police officer Elsie Houghton, London, WW2
Woman police officer Elsie Houghton (married name Makin, joined November 1939), on duty in London during the Second World War

Women police inspectors in procession, WW1
Women police inspectors in procession along a street during the First World War. Date: 1915

Group photo, Women Patrols Division, Met Police, London
Group photo, Women Patrols Division, Metropolitan Police, London, in March 1922. They are wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in 1919, and named after the womens Superintendent, Sophia Stanley

Superintendent Stanley and three women police officers
Superintendent Sophia Stanley (served 1918-1922, seated), the first Superintendent of Women Police, and three women police officers (left to right: Elinor J Robertson, served 1919-1922)

Woman police officer in new Stanley Uniform
Woman police officer in the new Stanley Uniform, introduced in 1919, and named after the first Superintendent of Women Police, Sophia Stanley

Two women police officers and a policeman, London
Two early women police officers and a policeman, London. They are (left) Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), (right) Alice Foscoe (nee Wills) both wearing the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919

Woman police officer Sergeant Florence Hill, London, wearing the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919. She joined the force in October 1919

Woman police officer on duty, London
Woman police officer in London, wearing a helmet, a double-breasted coat and a duty armband. Date: circa 1920s

Woman police officer with small boys, London
Woman police officer on duty in London, tying the shoelace of a small boy as his friends look on. Date: circa 1920s

Two women police officers, Bow Street, London
Two women police officers outside Bow Street Police Station, London. They are WPC Ivy Ellis (left) and Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden (right)

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills on duty, London
Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer, seen here on duty in a London street. She joined the force in January 1919, and is wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

Women police officers on parade, London
Women police officers on their first parade in London, wearing the new Stanley Uniform, taking part in a postwar Thanksgiving Service. Date: 1919

George V and Queen Mary official visit, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary on an official visit to a munitions factory during the First World War. On the left behind a rope is a large group of women munitions workers

Group photo, women police officers in uniform, WW1
Group photo, women police officers in uniform, Women Police Service (WPS), on security duty at a Munitions Factory during the First World War. Also included are a military officer and a terrier dog

George V and Queen Mary visit munitions factory, WW1
King George V and Queen Mary visiting a munitions factory during the First World War. With them is an early woman police officer, Chief Inspector Reinhold (right)

Group photo, women police officers in uniform
Group photo of women police officers in uniform during the early days of the Women Police Service (WPS). Date: 1910s

Two early women police officers in uniform, the one on the left wearing sergeants stripes. Date: 1910s

First Railway Women Police, Darlington, WW1
Group photo of First Railway Women Police, stationed at Darlington and employed by the North-Eastern Railway Company during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

Two women police sergeants with Canadian troops, WW1
Two women police sergeants of the WPS (Women Police Service), King and Campbell, in a group photo with Canadian troops, some of them wearing kilts

Early woman police officer, Mrs Lornas Heenan, in uniform with peaked cap. Date: 1910s

Group photo, munitions factory workers, Hereford, WW1
Group photo of women munitions factory workers in Hereford, together with two early women police officers, including Lilian Maud Newell (back row, towards the right)

Early woman police officer, WW1
Early woman police officer, member of a special womens patrol set up at the start of the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1915

Early woman police officer, Sub-Inspector Cooke, while on duty at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. On her peaked cap is a badge, WPS, standing for Women Police Service. Date: 1910s

Early woman police officer with three WaFs, WW1
Early woman police officer (second left), member of the WPS (Women Police Service) formed at the start of the First World War, with three other women in WaF uniform. Date: 1914-1915

Early woman police officer, Mrs M B Crowle
Early woman police officer, Mrs Mary Beatrice Crowle, one of the first members of a special womens patrol set up at the start of the First World War

Early woman police officer, Lilian Maud Newell, WW1
Studio photo of an early woman police officer, Lilian Maud Newell (b. 1890), who joined the force at the start of the First World War. Date: 1914-1915

Early woman police officer, possibly Mary Allen. Date: 1914

Lily White, Womens Auxiliary Police Corps
Lily White of the Womens Auxiliary Police Corps (founded 1939). Date: circa 1939

Alice Cornwell, early woman police volunteer, seen here in uniform in a studio photo. Date: 1910s

Group photo, seven early woman police volunteers, including Alice Cornwell (back row, first left). Date: 1914

Women recruits for police jobs lined up
Women recruits for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up in uniform wearing armbands with the initial WPSR (probably standing for Women Police Service Recruit). Date: circa late 1910s

Sub-Inspector Barnett with women applicants
Sub-Inspector Barnett at Metropolitan Police headquarters, receiving applications from women to work for the London police force. Date: circa late 1910s

Women police officers, one on horseback
Women police officers in uniform, one on horseback (Eva Christy) and one on foot (Nina Boyle). Date: circa 1910s

Women applicants for police jobs lined up
Women applicants for jobs with the Metropolitan Police in London lined up, some of them already in uniform. Date: circa late 1910s

Women staff officers, Metropolitan Police, London
Group photo of women staff officers, Metropolitan Police, London: D Meeson Coates (Chief Inspector), Miss St John Partridge, M Damer Dawson (Chief Officer), Ms Allen (Chief Superintendent)

Women Police Service (WPS) uniform dated 1916, when women first began to join the London police force. Date: 1916

A group of WPCs
A line of woman police constables, smile for the camera. Date: 1980s

Metropolitan Police blacksmith with WPC and horses
A blacksmith shaping a horseshoe on his anvil, while a Metropolitan Police WPC watches. Two horses stand waiting in the background. Date: circa 1980s

Game of snooker, Convalescent Police Seaside Home
Three Met Police colleagues enjoying a game of snooker in the games room of the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Metropolitan Police officer speaking to a little boy
A Metropolitan Police officer (WPC) speaking kindly to a little boy who looks as if he might have lost his way -- or perhaps someone has forgotten to pick him up from school. Date: circa 1950s

Metropolitan Police group photograph at exhibition
Group photograph of Metropolitan Police officers, male and female, posing with a police car on an exhibition stand. A banner bears the words: Beat crime -- join us. Date: circa 1970s

WPC with children at London Zoo conservation event
A Metropolitan Police WPC poses for her photograph with three children and one adult at London Zoo, where they are taking part in a Conservation in Action event

Colleagues with jigsaw, Convalescent Police Seaside Home
Two young Met Police colleagues at work on a jigsaw puzzle at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Group photo, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
A group photograph of police officers, male and female, at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Portland Road, Hove, East Sussex. WPC Kay Parrott is in the second row, on the right. Date: May 1954

Policewoman with evacuee children
A policewoman helping evacuee children find their train out of London during the Second World War

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