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Police Constable no.5 Edward Charles Devereux and another (as yet unidentified) Constable of the former Neath Borough Police.

Devereux was born in Resolven in the Vale of Neath. He joined the Neath Borough police in 1906 and retired on pension in 1933 holding the rank of Sergeant.

Other photographs of him have also been uploaded onto the Peoples Collection Wales.

The Ross Mather Police Memorabilia of Wales Collection.

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Martyn Griffiths's profile picture
P.C. 16 is almost certainly David Jones who was in the Neath Borough Police from 1907 and still there in the 1920s. Both officers did war service.

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