The Inverness Archive
No: 96 Contributor: Dave Conner Year: 1925
Police v Railwaymen Charity Football Match
Charity Football Match at Caledonian FC ground (Telford Street) Inverness in 1925, between the Police and Railwaymen.
The elderly gentleman seated in the middle row is John McNaughton, Chief Constable of the Burgh of Inverness.
The two chaps standing at either end, dressed in Victorian police uniform (Sergeants' helmet badges) were police officers, and the chap in top hat in the middel of the back row was PC George Bain, whose son, also George, also served in Inverness Burgh Police - and I had the privilege of working with George (junior) in Northern Constabulary days.
Picture added on 30 July 2009 at 21:25
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Uniformed Services
Uniformed Services
2nd row: J MacGregor (police); A Fraser (police). R Duncan, G Paul, A Fraser (police), A Brodrick, H Smith (police). J Rogerson, J MacKay, W Treasurer, D Lumsden (police), R MacAskill (police), K MacLeod (police)
3rd row: H Corbett, A MacLean (police), A MacKenzie (police), Chief Constable John McNaughton, D Urquhart (police), W Paterson (police).
Front row: C Mitchell, A MacDonald, A Cameron, D Dallas, AJ Thompson, D Thompson, D Grant, T Tullock.
The personnel in the phtograph have been named by the phtographer, Will C Cooper, Inverness, and I have worked out which ones were police officers by comparison with the Force Nominal roll.
Constable William Paterson (very appropriately wearing a navy uniform in view of his family's seafaring traditions) would go on to be the only Burgh officer to rise through the ranks to Chief Constable of the Burgh Force (from 1950 to 1962).
PC David Lumsden was the father of Det Sgt Evan Lumsden of the Burgh Police who tragically died along with PC Ian Ritchie in November 1968 while members of the Force's Sub Aqua unit, searching the Caledonian Canal at Corpach for a missing person.