Member Biographies

The story of the NT Police is mostly that of the people who made up the organisation and here we present some of those people.

The NTPMHS has many dossiers on other people that at this time have not been transferred to an electronic format. If you'd like to assist with writing a biography for this site, please get in touch.

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Relationships with Aboriginal Women

The following paragraphs taken from "A Force Apart?" detail relationships between Aboriginal Women and NT Police members in a historical...

Jackie Gordon

(from "A Force Apart?") A more recent example of the life of a police wife was that of Mrs Jackie Gordon, whose husband, John Gordon, was...

Vicki Darken

(from "A Force Apart?") There are no extant records of the loneliness the early police wives felt, but life had hardly changed by 1945...

Anna Mary Dow

(from "A Force Apart?") In the Territory, not only senior officers’ wives raised money for charity. Anna Mary Dow, who was born in 1869...

Charlotte Georgina Foelsche

(from "A Force Apart?") Charlotte Georgina Foelsche, who preceded Anna Waters to the Northern Territory, apparently led a quieter life,...

Anna Maria Woide Waters

(from "A Force Apart?") The senior officers’ wives became part of Darwin society and involved themselves in the various fund raising...

DEANS, Joan Mary OAM

Joan Deans was the wife of bush policeman Frank Deans. Joan joined the Commonwealth Medical Service and was posted to Alice Springs...

LITCHFIELD, Fredrick Henry

Frederick Henry Litchfield was born on 27th April 1832 in India. He was appointed on 28th July 1865 by Boyle Travers Finniss, Magistrate...

RONALD (PETER) McAULAY, Q.P.M., A.O.,J.P.

Ronald McAulay (who was universally known as Peter) was born in Adelaide on the 30th November, 1932. He joined the South Australian...

WURMBRAND, Erwein

Northern Territory Police Museum and Historical Society website person record. If you have information to add contact the webmaster....

WOOD, Robert

From "A Force Apart? p.129 One of the most glowing references in any of the personnel files is that provided by a Superintendent of the...

WOOD, Alexander Gray

Most of the information on this page provided by Tony Maple - contact email held by webmaster. If you have information to add contact...

WOOD, Albert

Northern Territory Police Museum and Historical Society website person record. If you have information to add contact the webmaster....

WINKLER, Robert Louis

Northern Territory Police Museum and Historical Society website person record. If you have information to add contact the webmaster....

WILLIAMS, John Russell

This page has only just been started - if you have anything to add email the webmaster John Russell Williams was born on 2/7/1948 in...