Joseph Farndale CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 KPM

Queen's Police Medal

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 (1864–22 February 1954) was a British

United Kingdom

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 police

Police

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 officer who served as Chief Constable

Chief Constable

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 of Bradford City Police

Bradford City Police

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 from 1900 to 1938.

Farndale was born in Wakefield

Wakefield

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 and educated at Field House Academy in Aberford

Aberford

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. He joined the police at the age of twenty and later became Chief Constable of Margate Borough Police. Leaving Margate he took on the role of chief constable of York City Police from 1897 to 1900 before moving to Bradford

Bradford

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 in 1900 to succeed Roderick Ross

Roderick Ross

Roderick Ross CVO CBE KPM was Chief Constable of Edinburgh City Police from 1900 to 1935.Ross was born in West Helmsdale in the parish of Kildonan, Sutherland, the son of a crofter...

, who had left for Edinburgh.

He was awarded the King's Police Medal (KPM) in 1914 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours.