Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Inspector D. G. Hayes, City of London Police, who was the on-duty senior officer, and the first senior officer on the scene at the Exchange Buildings, Houndsditch, on the night of 16-17 December 1910, when three City of London Policemen were murdered, resulting in the famous Siege of Sidney Street

Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, City of London Police, bronze (P.C. 625. D. Hayes.); Coronation 1902, City of London Police, bronze (Insp. D. Hayes.); Coronation 1911, City of London Police (Ch. Insp. D. G. Hayes.) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £300-£400

Daniel George Hayes attested for the City of London Police and, having been advanced Chief Inspector, was the on-duty senior officer, and the first senior officer on the scene at the Exchange Buildings, Houndsditch on the night of 16-17 December 1910, when three policemen were murdered- the crime shocked Londoners, and the following month the perpetrators were identified as hiding out in Sidney Street- the subsequent Siege of Sidney Street, in which the Home Secretary Winston Churchill himself was present, was one of the major police incidents of the early 20th Century.

Hayes is mention in the books The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street by Donald Rumbelow; and The Battle of Stepney by Colin Rogers.

Sold together with a poor-quality photographic image of the recipient wearing his medals.