(aged 37 in 1936; died late 1970s), policeman. Born in Williamstown, GC. Parents: Mr and Mrs Maurice Lauber. Maurice Lauber, the father of the subject of the present article, was sexton of St. Mary’s Church, Williamstown, for 43 years. His son Bernard attended public school and high school at Williamstown, and Cornwall Commercial College. Service record in WWI: belonged to the 73rd Battalion, Royal Highlanders, called the Canadian Black Watch; wounded in France; transferred to Canadian Forestry Corps; achieved rank of staff sergeant; discharged from military service, Oct. 1919. In March 1920 he became a member of the Wigan Borough Police Force, of Wigan, near Manchester, England. By 1936 he had the rank of detective sergeant. In July 1948, B. Lauber, inspector, was retired on pension after 28 years of service with the Wigan police force. The Wigan of Lauber’s period is likely to be best known to posterity through a major work by George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). Attempts to trace Lauber’s date of death in the English vital records have proved inconclusive.

News report on Lauber, with biog. detail, Standard Freeholder 12 June 1936 (portrait) * retirement: Wigan Borough Council Watch Committee minutes, 1 July 1948 * death of his sister, Stella B. Lauber, SFH 12 Jan. 1934 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 44