Erle Wilmott ROUGHLEY
Erle Wilmott ROUGHLEY
AKA Ted ROUGHLEY
* Nickname: ?
Late of ?
Relations in ‘the job’: Malcolm Clifton Charles ROUGHLEY, NSWPF # 11233 ( Son of Erle )
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: ?
NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # ? ? ?
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 35??
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday ? October 1933 ( aged ? )
Probationary Constable- appointed ? ? 1933 ( aged ? )
Constable – appointed ? October 1934
Constable 1st Class – appointed ? January 1943
Final Rank: = Constable 1st Class
Stations: The Depot ( Redfern Police Academy )( Oct 1933 – March 1934 ),
Central ( 1 Division )( ProCst )( GDs )( March 1934 – Aug 1935 ),
Hornsby ( 16 Division )( GDs )( Aug 1935 – Jan 1936 ),
Liverpool – ( Warwick Farm Call Box )( 22 Division )( GDs )( Jan 1936 – 1937 ),
Fairfield – Call Box ( 26 Division – now 34 Division )( GDs )( 1937 , 1939),
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: ? October 1933 to ? March 1944 = 10 years,
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From ? October 1933 to ? March 1944 = 10 years, Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = ?
Time in Retirement from Police: ?
Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system
Born: Thursday 9 February 1911
Died on: Sunday 11 March 1990
Age: 79 years, 1 month, 2 days
Organ Donor: Y / N / ?
Cause: ?
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Buried at: Dural Uniting Church Cemetery, Derriwong Rd, Dural, NSW
Grave Location: Section: Row: A Plot: 1A
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Erle Wilmott Roughley
1911 – 1990
Happily married to Charlotte for 53 years
He was our Dad (and father-in-law)
Janette (Bryan), Malcolm (Judy), Susan, Merelyn (Gunther)
And he was our Fardy
Melissa, Clifton, Wayne, John, Rodney, Nathan, Ian, Drew and Lauren
A Christian man prepared for Eternity
Charlotte May Roughley
1 – 5 – 1918 to 16 – 6 – 1999
Erle Wilmott Roughley 9 – 2 – 1911 to 11 – 3 – 1990
Much loved mother and father
Marney and Fardey
Thank God at every remembrance of you
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( March 2024 )
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Liverpool Police Officer – Probationary Constable Erle (Earl) Wilmott Roughley a former Orchardist entered the Police Depot at Redfern and commenced his Initial Training.
In 10/1933 he was attested a Probationary Constable.
In 3/1934 he was transferred from the Depot to No. 1 Division on General Duties, where in 10/1934
he was promoted to the rank of Constable.
In 8/1935 he was transferred to No. 16 Division (Hornsby) on General Duties.
In 1/1936 he was transferred to Liverpool, working General Duties at the Warwick Farm Police Call-Box.
Later (date not specified) he was transferred to the Fairfield Police Call-Box on General Duties. During 1/1943 he was promoted to the rank of Constable 1/c.
He was then exited from the Police Force in 3/1944, after serving the NSW Community for a period of 10 years.
Source: Liverpool Police Time Line ( 1788 – 2022 ) by Joe Stanioch, NSWPF # 14194
This amazing photograph was taken on the 29 November 1937. It depicts the Warwick Farm Railway Station vehicle level crossing, with the overhead road bridge (Hume Highway) under construction.
In the photo a local Liverpool Ambulance is seen crossing the railway line.
On the left side of the railway track you can see “ The Warwick Farm Police Call Box and a Police Officer “ standing outside, wearing his white helmet and watching the traffic.
The Police Officer was not identified.
Three Police Officers known to be stationed at the call box were Constable Nixon, Probationary Constable John. A. Gallaher and Probationary Constable Erle (Earl) W. Roughley.
They had the use of a Police Motorcycle with sidecar.
Source: Liverpool Police Time Line ( 1788 – 2022 ) by Joe Stanioch, NSWPF # 14194
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),
Saturday 22 August 1953, page 26
WASHING MACHINE. Rex, Automatic, boil, spin dry, in perfect order; original price. £136; for quick sale. £75. Inspection without obligation, ERLE ROUGHLEY. Orange Grove, Main Road, Dural.
22 Aug 1953 – Advertising – Trove
Biz (Fairfield, NSW : 1928 – 1972),
Thursday 26 August 1948, page 7
FAIRFIELD GOSSIP
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Roughley, formerly of Wilga Street, ( Fairfield ) have left the district to take up farming at Dural.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/76267102
Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),
Thursday 25 May 1944, page 6
LAW NOTICES FOR TO-DAY
PARRAMATTA QUARTER SESSIONS
Cyril Arthur Shaylor; Ernest William Peelgrane; Robert Francis Wiggins (appeal); Erle Wilmott Roughley (appeal).
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17908325
Biz (Fairfield, NSW : 1928 – 1972),
Thursday 20 August 1942, page 4
Constable Ted Roughley has been transferred from Fairfield to Liverpool ( as motor cyclist ); and Constable Tom Moffitt, of Kogarah, has taken his place. Constable Roughley will be missed in Fairfield.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/76271291
The name ‘Ted‘ was used in numerous articles of this Constable in the Trove search.
Biz (Fairfield, NSW : 1928 – 1972),
Thursday 16 May 1940, page 8
SHOP BURGLED.
A very retentive mind enabled Constable E. Roughley to make a quick arrest in connection with a shop window robbery in Ware Street, Fairfield, last Sunday night.
Constable Roughley warned several youths off the street at 10 p.m. and noticed one lad take a long black comb from his pocket to do his hair.
Later on passing Mr. W. E. Simpson’s store in Ware Street, he found a window broken and picked up a comb nearby.
At 11p.m., on patrolling the district, he questioned a youth sleeping under a verandah.
The lad went to comb his hair but found his comb missing. The constable produced the comb and arrested the youth, who will appear at Liverpool Police Court to answer the charges.
Several cycle accessories were stolen from the window.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/76302258
Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954),
Friday 6 January 1939, page 5
6ft. Snake Invades Home
A scared family unwillingly shared their house last night with a six-foot black snake.
Efforts to catch the snake earlier failed. It escaped after a constable had jumped on it with both feet.
The story was told by Miss Ruby Bonham, who lives with her aged parents and sister, Dorothy, at Prospect Street, Canley Vale.
“My mother, who is a semi-invalid, was lying on a couch in the lounge room yesterday,” said Miss Bonham.
“I was taking a rug to cover her when I heard a loud thump.
Gliding On Cabinet
“Investigating, I found a large black snake gliding over a glass topped cabinet.
“I tried to coax mother outside on a pretext of looking at something, but she said she wanted to sleep.
“Finally, with the aid of my sister, I managed to get her out of the room;”
Once safely outside, the women locked the lounge-room door and called the police.
Constable Roughley, of Fairfield, arrived, and shortly afterward the snake was seen to crawl into a bedroom.
Baton Attack
With baton drawn, the constable sprang to the assault, and aimed at the reptile vigorous blows, all of which missed.
Wriggling behind a wardrobe, the snake found its one possible means of escape — a hole 1¼ inches wide between two floor-boards.
Constable Roughley jumped and landed on the body of the snake with both feet as it wriggled into the hole.
The snake, however, squirmed from beneath the constable’s boots and disappeared.
Last night the bedroom was untenanted and the door securely locked.
The snake was beneath the floor. The occupants of the house were hoping they would be able to sleep.
Around the hole — the only means of exit – are animal traps and a saucer of milk.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/247450343
Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954),
Friday 12 May 1939, page 3
POLICEMAN SON AS WITNESS
Mother Mentioned In Divorce Suit
Evidence that he considered his mother had committed adultery in 1929, was given by a son to-day in the Divorce Court.
He was Constable Earl Roughley, 29, stationed at Fairfield. He said he would not say that his mother had treated him well.
William Lindley Marcroft, 58, petitioned for a divorce from Mary Stalker Marcroft, on the ground of her alleged desertion.
Mrs. Marcroft denied wilful desertion, and, in a cross-petition, alleged that, between February 1, 1931, and May 24, 1938, Marcroft committed adultery with Mrs. Essie Roughley. This was denied by Marcroft and Mrs. Roughley.
The parties were married in 1903.
“Holding Hands”
Constable Roughley, said in evidence that he had been subpoenaed to attend court.
Marcroft visited their home at Dural, from 1924, he said. Some times his mother and Marcroft went out in a car together.
Marcroft frequently changed his clothes at the home, and often used their bathroom. If he stayed the night, he used to sleep on a couch in the dining room.
Witness’s mother slept in the front bedroom.
One morning, Roughley said, he saw Marcroft sitting at the side of a bed occupied by his mother. They were talking and holding hands.
Once, his mother asked the children to call Marcroft “father.” Witness left the home in Dural in 1929.
Dr. Louat (for Marcroft): I suggest that your bad relations with your mother arose over a dispute about land left in your father’s will? — No.
Do you consider that up to 1929 your mother committed adultery?— Yes. You do? — On their actions, yes.
Recalled to the box. Marcroft denied all of the allegations against him by Roughley.
The hearing was adjourned until Monday. Dr. Frank Louat (J. H. Yeldham), for Marcroft; Mr. E. Little (Meagher, Sproule and Co.), for Mrs. Marcroft.
Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW : 1888 – 1950),
Wednesday 9 August 1939, page 1
FAIRFIELD GIRL HELD UP
MAN WITH REVOLVER DISAPPEARED IN SCRUB
Flourishing what appeared to be a revolver, a man held up a 16-years-old girl in Smithfield road, Fairfield, last night.
Police were told that when the girl said, “Look out – here comes my father,” the man decamped.
Directed by Detective-Sergeant McCarthy (Parramatta), police from Liverpool and Cabramatta, and two wireless patrols, combed the thick scrub in the vicinity, but were unable to find the man.
The girl was returning home from her work in the city.
She had walked about half a mile from the railway, and, when near a dark portion of the road, was confronted by a man.
He presented something resembling a revolver, police state, and ordered her to leave the footpath. This she did.
She then said, “Look out – here comes my father.” At this the man quickly disappeared into the scrub.
Running to her home a few hundred yards away, the girl told her father of the incident, which he immediately reported to Constable Roughley at the Fairfield call-box.
The man was described as being young, and having dark hair.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106210220
Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW : 1888 – 1950),
Wednesday 26 October 1938, page 11
NEWS IN BRIEF
While surfing at Austinmer, Constable Roughley, of Fairfield, sprained his back.
Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parramatta, NSW : 1888 – 1950),
Thursday 30 January 1936, page 14
‘”GOOD LIAR”
Liverpool Theft
MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT
” You’re a good liar – and a rather bad one also,” Magistrate C. Pickup told Frederick Anderson (45) at the Liverpool Police Court on Friday.
Charged, with having on January 23 stolen a loaf of bread, a plum pudding, 1lb. of sausages and 1lb of chops from Liverpool State Hospital, Anderson claimed that the victuals had been given him in a bag by a stranger.
He was fined £3.
Constable Roughley (Liverpool) said that on Thursday morning, after a conversation with Charles Bathie, an attendant at the hospital, he made a search of the grounds around the hospital and after making an examination of the adjoining property, went to a swamp near the Warwick Farm level crossing. ” As I got out on to the Liverpool road, I saw the defendant, walking along the road, and stopped him,” said the constable. ”
He was carrying with him a sugar-bag, and in answer to my questions, he told me that the bag contained food which he had bought. ”
Roughley said that he took defendant back to the Liverpool State Hospital, where Bathie identified him as having stolen some food. He added that, although not sober, defendant, who smelt very strongly of liquor, was not drunk.
Charles George Bathie gave evidence of having ordered defendant off the hospital premises. Defendant said, ” I’ll go when I get my bag. It’s up along the wall. ” Bathie said that after examining the bag he told defendant that its contents were the property of the institution, but defendant refused to hand it over, saying that it belonged to him. Witness next saw him with Constable Roughley.
Bathie identified the articles of food found in defendant’s possession as the property of the hospital. Their value was approximately 3/-.
Anderson said he lived in Bathurst Street, Sydney, and that he came to Liverpool to draw his war pension. He collected it, met a few friends and had a few drinks. About ten o’clock he saw a man in a sulky driving along Macquarie street – the main street. The stranger said, “Are you on the track, digger?” and he replied, “Yes.” The other man said, “Well, here’s something that might be handy to you,” handed him a sugar bag and drove on. ”I didn’t have a look at what it was,” said Anderson. “I took it for granted it was food.”
The magistrate: How were you dressed? – Like I am now. And where were you walking? – On the footpath. You had nothing in your hand? – Nothing. ” I owed a few small debts at the hospital,” said Anderson, “and I walked over there. I left my bag while I went to look for those from whom I had borrowed money when I was an inmate.”
The magistrate said that he could see no reason why defendant should have been mistaken for a swagman. “I have no doubt whatever about this,” he said in convicting.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104694861
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Cal
8 March 2024
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