Joe Jenner Kent County Constabulary
A London Evening Standard edition for June 1949 ran an article:
‘Sergeant Joe waits for Mr Churchill’
Mr Winston Churchill was presenting long-service medals to fifty special constables at Westerham (pop 3700), two miles from Chartwell Manor, his country home in Kent. In Saint Mary’s 200-seat Church Hall were ‘specials’ who enrolled during the IRA troubles in 1939 and who saw the job through. Many of them have since handed in their blue uniforms, so today’s parade was in mufti. They were being drawn up inside the hall by their chief, Major L. Pugh.
The ‘specials’ in wartime did four turns of duty a week in addition to their normal work, and many did long night vigils in the grounds of Mr Churchill’s country house during the blitz. Waiting to give Mr Churchill a hearty handshake was a man who has known him for many years – big bluff Sergeant Frank Jenner, known to everyone in Westerham as ‘Joe’. He has driven Mr Churchill thousands of miles in his taxi, in war and peace. Early in the war he drove him to the Admiralty. Today ‘Joe’ often gets a call to go to Chartwell Manor with his taxi…
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