Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A K.P.M. for Gallantry awarded to Constable A. Densham, Metropolitan Police, who was badly injured whilst stopping a runaway horse and van which was endangering lives at New Malden in 20 August 1934

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue, for Gallantry (P.C. Allan Densham, Met. Police.) on ‘Gallantry’ riband, in Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine £600-£800

K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1936: ‘Allan Densham, Constable, Metropolitan Police Force.’

Allan Densham joined the Metropolitan Police on 14 December 1914. His last posting was to V Division as a Police Constable and he retired on 15 March 1944.

The following article appeared in Reynolds’s Newspaper, 11 November 1934:
‘Mr Fry, Bow Street Magistrate, yesterday presented Police Constable Allan Densham with £7 in recognition of his courage in stopping a runaway horse and van at New Malden, Surrey, on August 20.
Mr Fry said that, although badly injured, the constable held on to the reins and stopped the horse at a moment when great danger to a number of people was imminent, and lives might have been lost.’