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New officer receives relative's 100-year-old collar number

Leicestershire PC's famous forbearer weighed 25 stone and served in Anglo-Zulu war.

New officer receives relative's 100-year-old collar number

Date - 13th April 2021
By - Gary Mason
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A student officer has received the same 83 collar number as his great-great-great grandfather who became one of Leicestershire’s best known officers and was featured on postcards after he joined in 1908.   PC Dan Challis joined the force...
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