Garda Review, Jan 1980

Cover Image Description: Old photo of group of police. Caption: "Our photo comes from Garda Dick Conway (Wexford). It shows No 1 Coy , Dublin Mounted Police, taken at Kevin St. in 1902 just before (he visit by King Edward and Queen Alexandra Not one man less than 6' in height! (Note St. Patrick's Cathedral in background.) Fifth from right in back row in George Francis Webb His daughter, Margaret, married Garda Jim Conway, who served from 1922 to 1957 Dick Conway is their son. In 1902 Constable Webb's horse slipped on cobbelstones in George's St and injured the Constable's foot. After a year’s rest and treatment he could still hardly walk and was threatened with a charge of malingening His wife wrote to the Prince of Wales who ordered that he be examined by the new-fangled X- Ray equipment This showed two fractured bones in his instep He was invalided on full pension entitlement in 1 903 of 7/6d (351/2 p) per month. He died in 1965. Dick Conway, who is a frequent contributor to “Garda Review' therefore represents the third generation of the family in the Irish police tradition.