Police Sergeant on motorcycle with sidecar

Date Added: 13 September 2016 Year: 1930 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2016_010_068 | ▶ Picture No: 13052

From the ‘Gillespie Collection’ of monochrome prints from glass photographic plates, a photograph of Police Sergeant Alexander Innes Will seated on a motorcycle with sidecar. The motorcycle bears the number plate SG3483. The houses in the background appear to be those of the Bishopsfield estate, Dornoch

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The photograph depicts Sergeant Alexander Innes Will, the senior Sergeant in the Sutherland Constabulary at the time this photograph was taken sometime in the early 1930s.

This would explain the presence of the numeral '1' on his collar. Of particular interest is the cap worn, as the peak appears to have some braiding on it which Constables' hats did not have.

Sergeant Will is wearing the Sutherland Constabular's own cap badge, which was replaced in the mid-1930s by the Scottish National police (Semper Vigil) cap badge.

Mr Will previously served as a Constable in Edinburgh City police, and transferred up to Sutherland in 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the retiral of another PC Will (his father)

PC Will (junior) was promoted to Sergeant at Dornoch in 1922, and retired in 1937.

Comment left on 14 March 2020 at 00:53 by Dave Conner Many thanks for the information about Sergeant Will Administrator

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