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Ruth Amy STYLES

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Ruth Amy STYLES

at Yeoval Hospital – Dubbo, NSW, late of Bribie Island, Qld, formerly of Wollongong, NSW

 

NSW Redfern Police Academy Class “possibly” 041

New South Wales Police Force – Retired

Regd. #  P/W 0022

Rank:  Commenced Training on ? pre June 1955?

Special Constable – Probationary Constable – appointed 20 June 1955 ( aged 23 years, 10 months, 12 days )

Special Constable 1st Class ( 1962 )

Detective – Designated ? ? ? ( YES )

Detective Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 June 1976

Detective Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 10 October 1978

Inspector – appointed 22 October 1986

( 1986 – Ruth was the FIRST female Inspector in a ‘Country’ location – Warilla – Now Oak Flats )

Chief Inspector – retired

Appears in the 1988 Stud Book but does NOT appear in the 1989 Stud Book

 

Stations:  ?, Warilla ( O.I.C.  1984 – 1989 )

 

Service:  From  ?pre June 1955  to  ? ? 1989? = 34 years Service

 

Awards:  ? No Find on Australian Honours system

 

Born:  Saturday  8 August 1931

Died on:  Saturday 17 January 1998

Cause:  ?

Age:  66 years, 5 months, 9 days

 

Funeral date:  Wednesday 21 January 1998

Funeral location:  Dubbo, NSW

Memorial Service:  Saturday 31 January 1998

Location:  ?

 

Buried at: Cremated

 

Inspectors Ruth Styles and Bev Lawson
Inspectors Ruth Styles and Bev Lawson

 

Inspector Ruth Styles at a Send Off at the Illawarra Yacht Club, Lake Illawarra.
Inspector Ruth Styles at a Send Off at the Illawarra Yacht Club, Lake Illawarra.

RUTH is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance   * NEED MORE INFORMATION

 


 

 

Back Row ( L - R ) Joan BANNER, Aileen DWYER / Aileen WHEELER, Dot IMRIE, Wilma WHYBROW, Ruth STYLES. Front Row: Julie LEWIS, June ABBOTT, Olga NORTH / Olga HATCH, Beryl SMITH, Madge WELBY - Redfern Police Academy about mid 1950s.
Back Row
( L – R )
 Joan BANNER, Aileen DWYER / Aileen WHEELER, Dot IMRIE, Wilma WHYBROW, Ruth STYLES.
Front Row
:

Julie LEWIS, June ABBOTT, Olga NORTH / Olga HATCH, Beryl SMITH, Madge WELBY – Redfern Police Academy about mid 1950s.

 

POLICE SEND OFF HELD AT THE ILLAWARRA YACHT CLUB.
INSPECTOR RUTH STYLES (WARILLA)
APRIL 1988

 

RUTH STYLES AND BEV LAWSON

 


 

Report of the Police Department for 1962    p 24

Special Constable 1st Class R. A. Styles (Women Police) represented New South Wales in the State Women’s Hockey Team in Tasmania and toured Malaya as a member of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team.

https://www.opengov.nsw.gov.au/viewer/5bd39fe4c5d5023bb6400878543a3998.pdf


 

 

 

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