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    George Shaw

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    1. I have a distant relative, Capt. Bernard Vidal Shaw, 1857-1932, who came out from England ca 1882 to join the Cape Mounted Police. By 1886 he had been appointed Commissioner of Police in Cape Town and received a Letter of Appreciation from the government of the Cape Colony for the manner in which he handled and resolved the Malay riots in January of that year. He also authored a number of reports on police matters and was sent to Tasmania to examine and report on policing methods there. Shortly thereafter he went to British Guyana where he eventually became Superintendent of Prisons before retiring in 1915. Can anyone please advise me how and from what source I can discover more about this person's service in Cape Town.
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