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Family Group: Pair: Police Constable G. Grimwade, Metropolitan Police, who was present at the Siege of Sidney Street in January 1911 Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. G. Grimwade. H. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. G. Grimwade.) contact marks, nearly very fine Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Benjamin Grimwood [sic]) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-£280 --- George Grimwade was born at Aldham, Suffolk, on 19 June 1879, the son of Benjamin Grimwade, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 11 November 1901. Posted to ‘H’ (Whitechapel) Division, he is recorded as having been present at the Siege of Sidney Street on 3 January 1911 - the Home Secretary Winston Churchill himself was present, in what was one of the major police incidents of the early 20th Century. He transferred to ‘V’ Division on 6 November 1912, and resigned to pension on 15 March 1927. He died in Esher, Surrey, in 1958. Sold together with a photograph of the recipient in uniform. Benjamin Grimwade (recorded thus on the 1891 census, but as ‘Grimwood’ on the 1901 and 1911 censuses), the father of George Grimwade, was born in 1858, and served as a Special Constable in Suffolk. He died in 1931.
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Family Group: Pair: Police Constable G. Grimwade, Metropolitan Police, who was present at the Siege of Sidney Street in January 1911 Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. G. Grimwade. H. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. G. Grimwade.) contact marks, nearly very fine Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Benjamin Grimwood [sic]) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-£280 --- George Grimwade was born at Aldham, Suffolk, on 19 June 1879, the son of Benjamin Grimwade, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 11 November 1901. Posted to ‘H’ (Whitechapel) Division, he is recorded as having been present at the Siege of Sidney Street on 3 January 1911 - the Home Secretary Winston Churchill himself was present, in what was one of the major police incidents of the early 20th Century. He transferred to ‘V’ Division on 6 November 1912, and resigned to pension on 15 March 1927. He died in Esher, Surrey, in 1958. Sold together with a photograph of the recipient in uniform. Benjamin Grimwade (recorded thus on the 1891 census, but as ‘Grimwood’ on the 1901 and 1911 censuses), the father of George Grimwade, was born in 1858, and served as a Special Constable in Suffolk. He died in 1931.
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