Hartlepool History Then & Now

PC Leslie Braithwaite

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This photograph shows PC Leslie Braithwaite with a group of football supporters in Hartlepool.

Leslie Braithwaite was born in West Hartlepool on Boxing Day 1928. The oldest of 7 children.

Leslie initially worked on the railway in North Cemetery signal box. He then joined the army in 1947 and served with the Durham Light Infantry. He also served in Malaya in the Kings Own Yokshire Light Infantry in 1948. He stayed there for three years. He came back to England in 1951 and was demobbed in 1953. He joined the British Transport Commission Police at West Hartlepool in March 1953.

He was later promoted to posts at Newcastle, Darlington and Tadworth (Surrey). When he retired from the police in 1979 he was a Superintendent at the London Transport Division.

He then went into Security roles within some top London Hotel until his death in 2012.

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