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A number of medals awarded to Inspector William James Newell of the City of London Police who was also commended for his actions in respect of the Sidney Street Siege. They come with a copy of his Police records and the original centrepiece of the Daily Mirror newspaper dated 5th January, 1911 dealing with the siege. His medals are as follows:- Jubilee 1897, City of London Police issue, bronze (PC 724), Coronation 1902, City of London Police issue, bronze (PC), Coronation 1911, City of London Police issue (Insp), mounted as worn. Royal Life Saving award (Boxed). Silver St John's Ambulance Brigade Long Service Cross Number 30014. 8 City of London Polce medals in respect of Life Saving and Water Polo dated between 1897 and 1920 and 1 Middlesex County medal. Newell was commended 11 times but the most important was the one which concerned the Murder of 3 City of London Police Officers in Houndsditch and ended with the Sidney Street siege involving the then Home secretary Winston Churchill. Newell's commendation was awarded on 26/6/1911 and is as follows:- "Commended by the Commissiooner and awarded ?10 by the Courts of Alderman for exemplary zeal and intelligence in the investigation in the case of the murder of three Police Officers in Exchange Buildings on the 16th ,December, 1910". This is in his enclosed Police records

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