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Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C, J. Norman. A. Divn.) very fine £60-£80

John Robert Norman was born in the Parish of St. Peter’s, Norwich, Norfolk, on 6 June 1862, and joined the Metropolitan Police at Great Scotland Yard on 19 October 1885. Assigned to ‘A’ or 1st Division, he was promoted to Police Sergeant in August 1888 and transferred to the Commissioners Office; promoted to Inspector and transferred to ‘J’ or Bethnal Green Division, March 1899; to ‘C’ or St James’s Division, March 1901; to ‘H’ or Whitechapel Division, November 1901; to ‘M’ or Southwark Division, September 1907. Inspector J. R. Norman resigned to Pension from ‘M’ Division on 24 October 1910. Sold with copied Metropolitan Police record of service.