Metropolitan Police Strike 1918/1919

[antiqueone]

I hope I'm putting this query in the right forum/
"In April 1919 PC Spackman of the Metropolitan Police was dismissed for urging officers to boycott elections to the Representative Board. A mass meeting was held in Trafalgar Square in protest of Spackman's treatment. Senior officers and the government sought to crush the renewed militancy from the start."

Does anyone have further information on who PC Spackman was?

I have a William John Spackman, who was a policeman in 1911 census.

[JJen]

Hi,

There are numerous articles in The Times about a PC Spackman (no other names given) however I did find one which refers to him as Police Constable W. Spackman.

JJ

[Richard Lane]

Hi, my son is married to his great-granddaughter. I know that he died in 1926, but whether he was shot dead during the General Strike I don't know. I only have information after this. I only spotted your post just now and note it is nearly 5 years ago you asked the question. His wife could not survive on a widow's pension of a pound a week, so sent 4 of the 5 children to Dr Barnardo's, who later sent them to Australia, two to Western Australia and the twins to NSW, one of whose grand-daughters is married to my son. I used to belong to Ancestry.

[cath151]

There is this
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13364987

Cathy
Added   apologies did nt realise it was an old post