Police Orders 31st October 1888

[The Station Cat]

Does anyone happen to have access to the Police Orders for the 31st October 1888?

I'm aware that T Division transferred the following officers..

From T Division [Hammersmith]
T650 to H467 PC 66443 [2nd Class] Arthur Vincent
T510 to H468 PC 68788 [2nd Class] William A. Walker
T602 to H469 PC 70694 [3rd Class] Frederick Lessons
T372 to H470 PC 71125 [3rd Class] William J. Rough
T621 to H471 PC 72933 [3rd Class] William H. Saundery
T250 to H472 PC 73033 [3rd Class] Thomas Jefferson
T651 to H473 PC 73631 [3rd Class] Arthur Waters
T652 to H474 PC 73636 [3rd Class] Albert A. Truelove
T671 to H475 PC 73682 [3rd Class] George Evans
T674 to H476 PC 73715 [3rd Class] Robert Vickers
T680 to H477 PC 73736 [3rd Class] Harry Roffey
T181 to H478 PC 73744 [3rd Class] William J. Gunner
T687 to H479 PC 73764 [3rd Class] William Lewis*
T688 to H480 PC 73769 [3rd Class] Griffith Evans*
T236 to H481 PC 73777 [3rd Class] George Crews
T668 to H482 PC 73778 [3rd Class] Michael Waters
T465 to H483 PC 73785 [3rd Class] Thomas T. Guppy
T679 to H484 PC 73793 [3rd Class] Benjamin C. Ide
T279 to H485 PC 73813 [3rd Class] George M. Ide


I'm current researching PC 73828 Samuel KNOWLES who joined in the 23rd July 1888 and was originally posted to T Division as 136T but who was transferred to J Division on the 31st October 1888 as 105J.

Am curious to know whether he was posted as an individual or whether he was part of a group like those sent to H Division?

I know Samuel was posted to Bethnal Green Police Station and remained there till at least 1901.

[Joshua Rogan]

Would any of the PCs transferred in to patrol the streets of Whitechapel during the Autumn of terror have changed their collar number, or retained their original? I can only think of Alfred Long, offhand, who was drafted in from A Division to patrol H Division territory but kept his number 254A.

[The Station Cat]

Would any of the PCs transferred in to patrol the streets of Whitechapel during the Autumn of terror have changed their collar number, or retained their original? I can only think of Alfred Long, offhand, who was drafted in from A Division to patrol H Division territory but kept his number 254A.

My understanding was that chaps like Long, Wensley & Scholes would have just kept their own Divisional numbers and letters, whereas the chaps listed above and KNOWLES had been physically transferred to H & J Divisions and not seconded so where given new numbers.

[The Station Cat]

Police News 8th July 1889