Inspector Horace Jaikens - Huntingdonshire Constabulary
Acknowledgement Many thanks to Martyn Smith , grandson of Horace Jaikens, for kindly sharing information and photographs about his grandfather. Google Maps - location of Ramsey. On 1 February, 1941, Josef Jakobs, erstwhile German spy, was found by a couple of farm workers in a potato field southwest of the town of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. The farmers found Harry Godfrey, a member of the local Home Guard, at a nearby farm and he promptly phoned the Ramsey Police Station at 8:50 am. Godfrey reported to Acting Inspector Jaikens that an injured parachutist had been found near Wistow Fen Farm. The man was a suspected enemy agent and had been disarmed and was under the supervision of two members of the Home Guard. Inspector Horace Jaikens during World War 2 - standing outside the Ramsey Police Station. (Photo copyright Martyn Smith) (Used with permission) Jaikens immediately phoned Acting Sergeant Pottle from nearby Bury, Captain W.H. Newton, Officer Commanding the Ra