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Warning Notice - Guarding Lines of Communication, August 1914.

Police Warning, extract from Orders by Colonel G L Hibbert DSO, Commanding North Lancashire Infantry Brigade.

Printed notice: Police Warning, extract from Orders by Colonel G L Hibbert DSO, Commanding North Lancashire Infantry Brigade.
Sentries on Bridge Guards are given orders that any person seen loitering in the neighbourhood of the Railway or acting in a suspicious manner is to be challenged and arrested. If the person fails to obey at once he is to be fired on.
Signed ( E C Cadman, Major, Acting Brigade Major, North Lancashire Infantry Brigade) 15 Aug 1914
Persons are Warned:
To obey all challenges by sentries,
To Hal and shout ‘Friend’ and
Not to Advance till allowed.
From dusk till dawn all persons should NOT use the Bridges unless there is some necessity to do so.
To loiter on or near a Railway or Bridge is an offence, and persons doing so without reasonable cause do so at their own peril, and are further liable to be arrested and tried by Military Court Martial.
I would strongly advise all persons not to use the bridges between dusk and daylight.
Major A F Poulton, Chief Constable of Berkshire. County Police Station Reading. 20 Aug 1914
Notice printed by Knill & Sons, Duke Street and Minster Street, Reading.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-26