Arthur Thomas played rugby for New Brighton. He served with the Royal Marines 45 Commando for two years of national service and joined the Northern Rhodesia Colonial Police.
As a rural patrol officer in the Ndola district of Northern Rhodesia, Inspector Tom Savage was responsible for a vast area encompassing tribal trust lands, small holdings, farms near the Copperbelt towns, and the railway line extending as far south as Lusaka. With the railway’s main north-south ro...