Eric Nottingham
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Capt. Eric Cato Nottingham MC CPM (9 May 1891 – 1972) was a British soldier and police officer who served as the Inspector General of Police of the Gold Coast Police Service from 8 October 1938 to 21 May 1944.[1]
Nottingham was born in Streatham, London, in 1891.[2] He received the Military Cross while serving in Belgium with the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War.[3] Prior to his work in Ghana, he was the Assistant Commissioner of Police in the Northern Provinces, Nigeria.[4]
He received the Colonial Police Medal in the 1941 New Year Honours.[5]
Nottingham died in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, aged 80.[6]
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- 1891 births
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- British Army personnel of World War I
- Royal Field Artillery officers
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- British expatriates in the Gold Coast (British colony)
- British colonial police officers
- Ghanaian Inspectors General of Police
- Recipients of the Colonial Police Medal
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