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 ...
Reference: WH0967
