| Notes: | CMP. Formerly General Service Corps. Discharged to Commission. London Gazette 37678, page 4016, 9/8/46. General List. The undermentioned are granted immediate emergency commissions from the ranks in the rank of 2/Lt's. 6/6/46 14273584 Sgt Albert Frederick Riggs (366637) from CMP.
Extract from Lancashire Evening Post, 12/10/45. N.W. POLICE AS BRUSSELS GANG BUSTERS.
Amongst North-West peacetime police constables who belong to the Special Investigation Branch of the Corps of Military Police engaged in "busting" the gangster rackets in Brussels are Sergt L Black of 29 Fraser Avenue, Penwortham and Sergt. A F Riggs of Earl's Road, Bransley, Whitehaven. it is no exaggeration to say that we are up against a really immense problem here in Brussels, their Commanding Officer told and observer. Every day large quantities of foodstuffs, cigarettes and materials of practically every description are being stolen from the docks at Antwerp, from storehouses and ordnance depots and from military trucks. A few days or even hours after they are stolen the goods are put up for sale in the black market. He also told how his men were fighting a racket in manufacturing and sale of hooch liquor wood alcohol which has a deadly effect. |
