Gordon Halland
Colonel Gordon Herbert Ramsay Halland (13 April 1888 – 28 March 1981) was a career British police officer, who served in India, Ireland, UK, Sri Lanka and Germany. Halland was born on 13 April 1888, at the vicarage in Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Rev. John Thomas Halland (1857–1941), the vicar of Witham on the Hill and subsequently the rector of Blyborough, Lincolnshire, and Amy née Ramsay (1857–1939). Halland was privately educated and attended the Royal Latin School in Buckingham. In 1906 he was employed as a science master at Kirton Grammar School, Lincolnshire. In 1908 he joined the Indian police and served in the Punjab, where he was second in command of the policing operation for the 1911 Delhi Durbar, and by 1914 reached the rank of District Superintendent. In 1915 Halland was seconded to the Indian army's general staff as an intelligence officer, with the task of countering subversion in the Sikh regiments of the Indian army. In 1916 he married Helen Claudine Blanche, daughter of Major-General John McNeill Walter, adjutant-general in India. In 1918 he was promoted to Major and awarded an OBE. In 1920, whilst home on leave Halland was ‘lent’ by