| Surname: | Basey |
| Initials: | C |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/2912 |
| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France 25/3/16. He enlisted 10/12/15, age 31.1 years, occupation Police Constable, home address: 4 Ronald Street, Longton, Stoke on Trent. Served Home 10/12/15, Army Reserve 11/12/15 to 29/12/15, Home 30/12/15 to 24/3/16, BEF 25/3/16 to 23/8/19, Home 24/8/19 to 21/9/19, class Z reserve 22/9/18. Info from Pension Index Card:- 87344. Basey, Charles, MMP,, P/2912, 21/9/19 to class Z reserve, 11/M/464639, Z/Misc/3433, 4 Ronald Street, Longton, Stoke on Trent, Staffs, Rejected. Charles Basey. Extract from the Staffordshire Sentinel 3 October 1933. SERGEANT BASEY - Retirement of Popular Officer - Court Tributes. Sergeant Charles Basey, one of the most popular members of the Longton Division of the Stoke-on-Trent City Police Force, wh0 has been stationed at Fenton since 1922, is retiring at the end of this week on completing 26 years service in the Constabulary. Sergt, Basey was born at East Tuddenham, Norfolk and is 43 years of age. He comes of a family of policemen. One brother served his time in the London City Force, he has another brother serving in the Norwich City Force another in the Military Foot Police and another served in the Metropolitan Police. Leaving school at the age of 12, he started work as a shepherd to his farther. At 18 he joined the Great Northern Railway Company and served for five years in various capacities at Aneasly, Baston, Grimsby, Grantham, Newark, Doncaster, Wakefield and King's Cross. POLICE AND MILITARY CAREER. In 1907 he joined the Grantham Borough Police and thence came to Longton on federation in 1910. Until 1922 he remained at Longton and in October to that year was promoted to the rank of sergeant and transferred to Fenton. Sergt. Basey has been commended by the magistrates and the City Watch Committee and has a letter written by the Town Clerk on behalf of the Watch Committee in 1914 complementing him for his arrest of a gang of shop thieves at Longton. He has been a member of Committee of Police Widows and Orphans Benevolent Fud, and is a member of the Sergeants' Branch Board of Stoke on Trent of the Police Federation of England and Wales. Sgt Basey joined the Army in 1915 and served until August 1919 in France in the Military Mounted Police. He went to France at the beginning of 1916. He was on the Somme, at Arras and Ypres and became a Corporal. he was at first with the 55th Division on the Somme and afterwards to Ypres and in January 1917 he was transferred to the Third Cavalry Division, 6th Cavalry Brigade. During the attack on the Arras front in Easter Week of 1917 Sergt. Basey had his horse shot under him, got a piece of shrapnel through his coat and went five days without food or drink. He was the last man of the Stoke on Trent Police Force to return to duty from France. Sergt. Basey who is married and has a son in the Royal Air Force is going to spend his retirement at East Tuddenham. COURT TRIBUTES - Tributes to Sergeant Basey were paid at Fenton Police Court to-day. The Chairman (Mr Shenton) said they were taking leave of a highly esteemed and thoroughly reliable police officer. During the whole of the 26 years he had done his duty in a conscientious manner and earned the respect of the public and the good will of his colleagues and the magistrate. The magistrates had always felt that they had had in him an officer in whom they could place thorough reliance. He hoped Sergeant Basey would have a long an pleasant life. Alderman W Tunnicliffe said the police of the district were second to none in all their duties and in the fair manner in which they gave evidence. Sergeant Basey had been as efficient in these matters as any member of the Force and they had appreciated his fairness in giving evidence. Mr R A Llewellyn (Magistrates' Clerk) associated himself with the remarks of the magistrates. |