Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Police Sergeant H. English, Metropolitan Police

Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.S. H. English. T. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.S. H. English. P. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.S. H. English.) good very fine (3) £120-£160

Harry Edward English was born at Poplar, Middlesex, on 4 July 1866, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 28 November 1887, at the height of the Whitechapel Murders. Assigned to ‘G’ (King’s Cross) Division, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on 25 May 1896, and transferred to ‘T’ (Hammersmith) Division. On 15 February 1902 he was appointed Station Police Sergeant in ‘P’ (Camberwell) Division, and remained there for the rest of his career, serving as Police Sergeant at the Brockley Police Station throughout the Great War. He retired to pension on 10 January 1918, after 30 years’ service, and died in Orpington, Kent, on 21 February 1946.

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