After thirty-five years of fauthful
service with the Force, another

veteran lays aside bis uniform to

Inspr. G. J. Duncan

AN INSPIRATION to junior
members of the Force, Inspector G.
J. Duncan's long and colorful career
in public service has terminated with
his retirement from the Force at the
end of this year.

Born at Regents Park, London,
England, in 1884, Inspector Dun-
can received his early education in
England. The eager desire for travel
and adventure manifested so often in
later life began at an early age. At

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the age of 16, he left his sheltered
home in London to travel to South
Africa. At Pietermaritzberg, Natal,
he was articled to a bank, but the
outbreak of the South African war
soon saw him enlisted in the Natal
Mounted Police as a trooper. Forth-
with assigned to the Police Field
Force, he went on active service after
a few weeks of intensive training.
General Luis Botha of the Boer
Army was attempting to invade
Natal from the Transvaal border in
Zululand. To prevent the invasion.
the Field Force was despatched to
the frontier, where it remained until
peace was declared in 1902.
Remaining with the Natal Mount-
ed Police after hostilities ended, he
was assigned to ‘outstation duty” in
Northern Natal. Most of the regular
police stations having been destroyed
during the war, tents and “pill
boxes’ became detachment quarters,
and life, to put it mildly, was ‘‘rug-
ged.’’ Returning to the Field Force,
Inspector Duncan remained with this
unit till he resigned from the Force
in 1905. Returning to England at
the ripe age of 21, a few weeks at
home were sufficient for this lover of

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passage for Canada.

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Naturally his preference turned
towards police work, and he joined
the North-West Mounted Police,
shortly to become known as the
Royal North-West Mounted Police,
and now the Royal Canadiana
Mounted Police. His training took
him to Regina, Headquarters of the
Force, thence he was posted to the

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