Arthur Rees

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Arthur Rees
Full name Arthur Morgan Rees
Date of birth (1912-11-20)20 November 1912
Place of birth Llangadog, Wales
Date of death 13 May 1998(1998-05-13) (aged 85)
Place of death Oxshott, England
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 85.5 kg (13 st 6 lb)
School Llandovery College
University St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s) Police chief
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Flanker
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
Cambridge University
Royal Air Force
Metropolitan Police
London Welsh RFC
Stoke
Wrexham RFC
Barbarian F.C.
Sussex
Middlesex
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
19341938 Wales 13 (0)

Arthur Morgan Rees CBE, QPM, DL (20 November 1912 – 13 May 1998)[1] was a Welsh international rugby union flanker, the Chief Constable of both Denbighshire and Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent, a sports' administrator and World War II fighter pilot.

Personal history

Rees was born in the village of Llangadog in 1912. He was raised as a Welsh speaker, not learning English until the age of seven.[2] He was educated at Llandovery College before matriculating to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[2] He joined the Metropolitan Police after leaving Cambridge in 1935, joining the Royal Air Force after the outbreak of the Second World War. Serving as a pilot, he rose to the rank of Squadron Leader, ending as acting Wing Commander.[2]

In 1943 he married Dorothy Webb, with whom he would have a daughter.[2] With the end of the war he returned to the Metropolitan force, rising through the ranks until becoming the Chief Constable of Denbighshire in 1957.[2] He remained with the Welsh force until 1964 when he became the Chief Constable of Staffordshire.

Awards

Rees received several awards for his many years as a high ranking police officer and his work on sporting bodies. In 1960 he was appointed the Order of the British Empire which was followed by a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974.[3] He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1970[4] and was made a Deputy Lieutenant to Staffordshire in 1967. In May 1977 he was granted the Freedom of the City of London and in November of the same year was made a Knight of the Order of St John.[5]

Bibliography

References

  1. "Arthur Rees". ESPN Scrum.coms. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Cole, Robert (21 May 1998). "Obituary: Arthur Rees". The Independent. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  3. "CBE" (PDF). london-gazette.co.uk. 15 June 1974. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  4. "Queen's Police Medal" (PDF). london-gazette.co.uk. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  5. "The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem" (PDF). london-gazette.co.uk. 4 November 1977. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
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