Harold John FERRIS

Harold John FERRIS

New South Wales Police Force

Joined NSW Police Force via NSW Police Cadet system on 5 July 1937

Cadet # 147

Regd. # ?

Rank:  Superintendent 3rd Class

Stations:  Newcastle (1979)

Service:  From  5 July 1937  to  ?

Awards:    Queen’s Police Medal ( QPM ) – granted 31 December 1977

National Medal – granted 8 February 1979

Born:  18/07/1920

Died on:  02/09/2004

Cause:  ?

Age:  84

Funeral date:  ?

Funeral location:  Belmont, New South Wales.

Buried at:  Cremated and ashes spread over Belmont Bay, Lake MacQuarie.

Memorial plaque:  Belmont Cemetery, NSW

[alert_yellow]HAROLD is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow]  *NEED MORE INFO

 

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On 08/09/1979  a regular festival takes place in Newcastle called the Mattara Festival. On this day a rock concert was put on for the youth. It apparently got out of hand due to the number of youths in attendance, lack of private security, the volume of the music, the ‘inappropriate’ dress of the young females, and the consumption of alcohol. Supt Ferris said that “We could have filled our jails that day”

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Harold was the husband of Mabel Isabel “Mabs” FERRIS who died on Friday  22 May 2015, aged 93.

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