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Metropolitan Police Gallantry Awards 1919 - 1938
by alphabetical order of Surname
| Surname | Christian Name(s) | Year of Award | Award | Rank | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott | John | 1921 | KPM | PS | With PC Wallace Churchyard, disarmed and arrested a mentally disordered man who was threatening them with a loaded rifle. Medal at Heritage Centre |
| Adamson | James Dunsmore | 1931 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Airton | James | 1936 | KPM | PC | Extinguished fire in an underground cable box at Ashley Square, Westminster; then entered smoke and fume-filled box in unsuccessful attempt to find a trapped workman. |
| Allen | Joseph | 1924 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Allison | Bertram | 1921 | KPM | PC | Pursued an armed youth stealing equipment from a Camberwell dentist’s house, despite threats and a shot fired at him. |
| Bacon | Charles | 1930 | KPM | Stn PS | Rescued a boy from the sea while on holiday at Yarmouth |
| Baker | Robert Henry | 1931 | KPM | PC | With PC Alexander McLeod Irvine, overpowered and arrested three of four armed shopbreakers who threatened to shoot them and then put up strong resistance. |
| Barwick | Harry Claude Vivian | 1932 | KPM | PC | While on sick-list with foot injury, rescued a boy from Teddington Weir, further injuring his foot in the process |
| Beacham | Henry | 1930 | KPM | PC | Single-handed chased five shopbreakers in Old Kent Road, leaping on their car running board and stopping it by hitting the driver. Chased them again as they made escape on foot after attacking him, and arrested one |
| Beesley | Alfred | 1924 | KPM | DS | With DS Walter Hobbs completed arrest of bicycle thief who tried to escape from their arrest on the way to the station by wrenching free, shooting Sgt Beesley in the leg, and firing five more shots as the two officers overpowered him |
| Bellamy | Arthur Richard | 1919 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Bellinger | James | 1926 | KPM | DS | With DDI Albert Ward and DS Robert Ellis, overpowered and arrested a known dangerous armed prison escapee who threatened them with a revolver which misfired. |
| Bertram | John Laidlaw | 1931 | KPM | PC | With PC Frederick Muggridge, overpowered and arrested a burglar who had fired four shots at them, and produced a second weapon to try again |
| Bird | Royal | 1920 | KPM | PS | With 3 other officers went to Waterloo Station to arrest a suspect wanted by Surrey Police. The man produced an automatic pistol with which he incapacitated two officers, before Sgt Bird and PC Riches arrived and after a long chase arrested him. |
| Blundell | Frederick Gilbert | 1934 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Bonner | Richard | 1926 | KPM | PC | With PC Albert Gravett, overpowered and arrested drink-maddened knife-wielding seaman who was terrorising and wounding others in Limehouse Asiatic seamen’s home |
| Bryant | Frank | 1919 | KPM | PC | Recovered a deranged man from the River Roding after the man had attacked him with a cutthroat razor |
| Buchanan | Thomas | 1921 | KPM | Insp | Whilst a Stn PS pinned an armed robber to the wall in a cinema office until help arrived |
| Bunce | William | 1934 | KPM | PC | With PC Frederick Hawkes, overpowered and arrested one of two robbers leaving a jeweller’s shop after being threatened with a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and attacked with a knife. |
| Burton | William | 1921 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Bush | Walter | 1923 | KPM | PC | With three other officers involved in chase under gunfire and arrest of the Fenians Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan who had just murdered Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson on his Belgravia doorstep |
| Cain | William | 1933 | KPM | DI | Jumped from Flying squad car onto running board of three suspect thieves’ blocked car; and jumped on again when he was knocked off as the thieves accelerated away. Successfully grappled with the driver to bring the car to a halt again. All 3 arrested. |
| Carr | Percy | 1920 | KPM | PC | With two other officers extinguished fires in two adjacent trucks of a 26 truck ammunition train standing beside a magazine at Woolwich Arsenal. To reach the fires they had to approach through exploding bullets and fuses. |
| Carter | Fredrick | 1923 | KPM | PC | With PC John Hayes, chased and arrested an armed man who had intimidated people in the Green Dragon public house, Croydon, and shot at the officers as they approached |
| Cavalier | Cecil Frank | 1938 | KPM | PC | Holder of MM. With PC Ernest Swayne, made unarmed search of a church hall, including its darkened loft, looking for a dangerous gunman who had just shot the verger and killed the vicar. Leaped at figure, which proved to be gunman who had killed himself. |
| Chesterman | John William | 1938 | KPM | PC | Remained on running board of Soho car thieves’ getaway car, despite violent and ultimately successful attempts to dislodge him. Promptly telephoned Scotland Yard, and the thieves were caught |
| Churchyard | Wallace | 1921 | KPM | PC | With PC John Abbott, disarmed and arrested a mentally disordered man who was threatening them with a loaded rifle. |
| Clayden | Alfred | 1927 | KPM | PS | With PS Henry Pegler overpowered and arrested a known dangerous armed criminal wanted on a bench warrant, who tried to shoot at them |
| Cockburn | Henry | 1933 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Cole | James | 1930 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building. Bar to KPM in 1943 |
| Colvin | George Charles | 1931 | KPM | PS | Overpowered (with assistance from passers-by) and arrested a deranged man, who had kicked another officer in the head, and had fired a revolver at Sgt Colvin. |
| Cooper | John | 1924 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Cozens | John | 1924 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Cunningham | Alexander | 1927 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Darke | Gilbert | 1920 | KPM | PC | With PC Francis Moore, after a struggle and threats against them, arrested an armed bank robber who had escaped to the cover of a wood |
| Davies | David | 1919 | KPM | PC | Rescued two workmen overcome by gas in a Mitcham sewer |
| Day | George | 1921 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Densham | Allan | 1936 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Dubber | John | 1924 | KPM | PC | Arrested armed burglar who shot at him twice. |
| Duff | James | 1923 | KPM | PC | With three other officers involved in chase under gunfire and arrest of the Fenians Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan who had just murdered Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson on his Belgravia doorstep |
| Dufficy | 1933 | BEM | PC | PO 6-Jun-1933 King's birthday honours list | |
| Dunn | Duncan | 1928 | KPM | PC | With PC William Marshall, made precarious climb along roof edge guttering to rescue woman from fourth floor window of a burning house in Newman Street |
| Ellis | Robert | 1926 | KPM | DS | With DDI Albert Ward and DI James Bellinger, overpowered and arrested a known dangerous armed prison escapee who threatened them with a revolver which misfired. |
| Farrance | Thomas | 1929 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Fisher | George | 1925 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Flint | Albert | 1924 | KPM | PC | Severely injured by knife-wounds inflicted by robber he arrested threatening a woman in Hyde Park |
| Fox | Charles Edmond | 1936 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Freeland | Edward Ernest | 1938 | KPM | PC | With PC Howard James Perry, overcome by hydrogen cyanide gas which was being used to fumigate an old house in Cumberland Terrace. Freeland first rescued a trapped old lady. |
| Geer | Edward | 1923 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Gravett | Albert | 1926 | KPM | PC | With PC Richard Bonner, overpowered and arrested drink-maddened knife-wielding seaman who was terrorising and wounding others in Limehouse Asiatic seamen’s home |
| Green | Percy | 1921 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Green | Alfred | 1927 | KPM | PC | Rescued two men from coal gas in a sewer shaft at Potters Bar |
| Green | Gordon Jack | 1936 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Hainsby | George | 1928 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Hall | Charles | 1921 | KPM | PC | With PC Jack Lewis, having been supplied with revolvers to apprehend four armed Sinn Fein fugitives, found themselves engaged in a short gunfight with one of them as the suspects decamped from a taxi in Bromley. All were subsequently arrested. |
| Hall | Henry | 1930 | KPM | PC | Arrested deranged man threatening bailiffs with a pistol in Holloway |
| Harding | Robert | 1925 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Hawkes | Frederick Ernest | 1934 | KPM | PC | With PC William Bunce, overpowered and arrested one of two robbers leaving a jeweller’s shop after being threatened with a sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and attacked with a knife. |
| Hayes | Harry | 1921 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Hayes | John | 1923 | KPM | PC | With PC Frederick Carter, chased and arrested an armed man who had intimidated people in the Green Dragon public house, Croydon, and shot at the officers as they approached |
| Haynes | Thomas John | 1934 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Hearn | Walter | 1920 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Hearn | John | 1938 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s). Holder of MM |
| Hedges | James | 1926 | KPM | PS | Arrested warehouse thief after a difficult rooftop chase at the end of which both sergeant and thief fell through a collapsing roof and the ceiling below it |
| Highgate | Albert | 1930 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Hobbs | Walter | 1924 | KPM | DS | With DS Alfred Beesley, completed arrest of bicycle thief who tried to escape from their arrest on the way to the station by wrenching free, shooting Sgt Beesley in the leg, and firing five more shots as the two officers overpowered him |
| Hood | Joseph Henry | 1937 | KPM | PC | Although a non-driver, leaped onto the running-board of an inadequately parked police car which started to roll down Gipsy Hill, and succeeded in steering it away from pedestrians until car overturned. Invalided out of Force as a result. |
| Hopkins | William | 1926 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Hutchings | Henry | 1923 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Irvine | Alexander McLeod | 1931 | KPM | PC | With PC Robert Baker, overpowered and arrested three of four armed shopbreakers who threatened to shoot them and then put up strong resistance. |
| Jacobi | Ernest | 1931 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Jaffray | Alexander | 1921 | KPM | PC | PC Sweet quietened a domestic incident in Endell St, Covent Garden where a man used a poker, tongs and chair to attack both the woman he was living with and PC Sweet. Later, the man attacked PC Sweet and PC Jaffray as they returned to arrest him. |
| Jameson | Alfred Charles | 1931 | KPM | PC | With the help of two members of public, overpowered and arrested suspected car thief who pushed a pistol against the constable’s body when he told he was to be arrested. |
| Jones | Christopher | 1927 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Jones | Reginald Granville | 1930 | KPM | DC | Also MM. Overpowered and disarmed a suspect who was in the act of shooting at him in Southwark |
| Kenwood | Thomas Jack | 1931 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Kidd | Charles | 1919 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| King | Frederick William | 1934 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Le Count | Edward A | 1932 | BEM for gallantry | PC |
Climbed up shop front of grocer's shop on fire in Leyton, and , despite
thick smoke, assisted firemen in rescuing occupants of building. Also
presented with a medal by the Mayor of Leyton. PO 3.6.1932 & Police Review |
| Lemmon | James | 1934 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Lewis | Jack | 1921 | KPM | PC | With PC Jack Lewis, having been supplied with revolvers to apprehend four armed Sinn Fein fugitives, found themselves engaged in a short gunfight with one of them as the suspects decamped from a taxi in Bromley. All were subsequently arrested. |
| Lovegrove | Henry | 1924 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Lovejoy | Ronald King | 1930 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Lyddon | Leslie | 1927 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| March | Walter | 1923 | KPM | PC | With three other officers involved in chase under gunfire and arrest of the Fenians Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan who had just murdered Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson on his Belgravia doorstep |
| Marshall | William | 1928 | KPM | PC | With PC Duncan Dunn, made precarious climb along roof edge guttering to rescue woman from fourth floor window of a burning house in Newman Street |
| Martin | Charles | 1923 | KPM | DC | With DC Percy McDouall, arrested an armed confidence trickster, even though in resisting arrest he pushed DC McDouall’s head through the plate glass window of the Brownie Restaurant in Victoria Street. |
| McDouall | Percy | 1923 | KPM | DC | With DCCharles Martin, arrested an armed confidence trickster, even though in resisting arrest he pushed DC McDouall’s head through the plate glass window of the Brownie Restaurant in Victoria Street. |
| McLaren | Laurie Andrew | 1934 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Mead | Thomas | 1926 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Mewton | William | 1920 | KPM | PC | With two other officers extinguished fires in two adjacent trucks of a 26 truck ammunition train standing beside a magazine at Woolwich Arsenal. To reach the fires they had to approach through exploding bullets and fuses. |
| Miller | Alfred Robert Henry | 1934 | BEM for gallantry | PC | With PC Wilkins, showed courage determination and skill in chasing & arresting two dangerous gangs of motor bandits within two nights of each other. PC Miller jumped on to running board and smashed windscreen with truncheon. Awarded £10 from Bow Street |
| Minnis | Robert Henry | 1931 | KPM | PC | Seriously injured, throwing himself in the path of a car to push clear a four-year-old girl who had dashed out into the traffic. The incident was seen by HRH the Duke of York, (later George VI), whose detective called the ambulance. |
| Monnery | William | 1920 | KPM | PC | With two other officers extinguished fires in two adjacent trucks of a 26 truck ammunition train standing beside a magazine at Woolwich Arsenal. To reach the fires they had to approach through exploding bullets and fuses. |
| Moore | Francis | 1920 | KPM | PC | With PC Gilbert Darke, after a struggle and threats against them, arrested an armed bank robber who had escaped to the cover of a wood |
| Morris | Edward | 1936 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Morris | Walter | 1935 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Mounce | Reginald Ernest | 1937 | KPM | PC | Rescued 7-year-old boy trapped under a barge in the Grand Surrey Canal at Peckham, and almost saved his life with artificial respiration |
| Muggridge | Frederick George | 1931 | KPM | PS | With PC John Laidlaw Bertram, overpowered and arrested a burglar who had fired four shots at them, and produced a second weapon to try again |
| Murphy | Denis Henry | 1931 | KPM | PC | Permanently injured when hit by a car out of whose path he was pushing an 11-year-old boy who had started to run across the road. |
| Newing | Cecil | 1929 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Norman | Percival | 1925 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Nott-Bower | John Reginald Hornby | 1931 | KPM | Special Supt. | Whilst serving in the Indian Police in Allahabad, confronted an armed man wanted for terrorism offences and was shot in the arm. Later, became Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. |
| Ockey | Edward Michael | 1930 | KPM | DI | Leaped from Flying Squad car onto running board of suspects’ 50mph getaway car. Beaten off with a jemmy hitting his hands and head, and almost killed by fall and police pursuit car. |
| Ost | Frederick | 1920 | KPM | PC | With PC Frederick Wright arrested an armed burglar who had fired seven shots at them and put shots through their clothing as they attempted to arrest him with an accomplice |
| Pattenden | Sidney | 1933 | KPM | PC | Shot three times, once close to the heart, by thieves he and a colleague interrupted in a Thames Ditton tennis pavilion. Invalided out of the Force because of his injuries |
| Peckover | Harold | 1925 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Pegler | Henry | 1927 | KPM | PS | With PS Alfred Clayden overpowered and arrested a known dangerous armed criminal wanted on a bench warrant, who tried to shoot at them |
| Perigo | Lawrence Austin | 1937 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Perry | Howard James | 1938 | KPM | PC | With PC Edward Freeland, overcome by hydrogen cyanide gas which was being used to fumigate an old house in Cumberland Terrace. Freeland first rescued a trapped old lady. Perry pulled the other two clear before himself collapsing. |
| Powell | Harry | 1921 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Raymond | Walter Ernest | 1931 | KPM | PC | Restrained a woman threatening suicide from a parapet 40ft above the road, and carried her to safety along the roof edge guttering |
| Richardson | George | 1920 | KPM | PC | With 3 other officers went to Waterloo Station to arrest a suspect wanted by Surrey Police. The man produced an automatic pistol with which he incapacitated two officers, before Sgt Bird and PC Riches arrived and after a long chase arrested him. |
| Riches | Frederick | 1920 | KPM | PC | With 3 other officers went to Waterloo Station to arrest a suspect wanted by Surrey Police. The man produced an automatic pistol with which he incapacitated two officers, before Sgt Bird and PC Riches arrived and after a long chase arrested him. |
| Roberts | Percival | 1928 | KPM | PC | Overpowered and arrested a man who was terrorising a public house with a pistol, and fired at the PC |
| Robins | William Albert | 1934 | KPM | PC | Rescued from the River Lea a violent suspect he had been pursuing while in plain clothes, and sustained injury from the man’s struggle |
| Robinson | Charles Frederick | 1936 | KPM | PC | Laboured to rescue a man from a falling shopfront following an explosion in Southwark, while 22 tons of debris rained down |
| Ruddock | Bertram Wellesley | 1935 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Russell | Arthur George | 1935 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Rutherford | John | 1924 | KPM | DC | Arrested armed gang leader who shot at him, when two armed gangs were threatening to fight each other in a Holborn pub |
| Sadgrove | Charles | 1924 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Sayer | Cecil | 1923 | KPM | DC | With three other officers involved in chase under gunfire and arrest of the Fenians Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan who had just murdered Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson on his Belgravia doorstep |
| Scheide | Alfred | 1933 | KPM | PC | Seriously injured in unsuccessful attempt to push little girl out of the path of a car in Brentford. |
| Shelah | Edward Onan | 1935 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Smith | George | 1921 | KPM | PC | Rescued a hysterical housemaid from a dangerous rooftop in Battersea |
| Smith | Claud Douglas | 1935 | KPM | DI | Overpowered and arrested an armed robber who tried to shoot him at pointblank range, having already shot down one of the constables accompanying DI Smith and fired several times at police. |
| Sparks | Henry George | 1929 | KPM | PC | Showed courage in dealing with runaway horse(s) |
| Starkey | Robert Mackintyre | 1938 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Steele | Kenneth Walter | 1936 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Stone | Frederick Mark | 1928 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Stubbs | Francis | 1919 | KPM | PC | Arrested an army deserter despite being kicked and injured by a knife |
| Sullivan | Maurice | 1920 | KPM | PC | Arrested one of two armed burglars he had been chasing as they fired five shots at him, and later attacked him with a jemmy |
| Swan | Robert | 1933 | KPM | PC | Arrested one of a gang of safebreakers he interrupted in Walworth, despite being knocked to the ground with a jemmy and severely injured. |
| Swayne | Ernest Walter | 1938 | KPM | PC | With PC Cecil Cavalier, made unarmed search of a church hall, including its darkened loft, looking for a dangerous gunman who had just shot the verger and killed the vicar. Leaped at figure, which proved to be gunman who had killed himself. |
| Sweet | Percy | 1921 | KPM | PC | PC Sweet quietened a domestic incident in Endell St, Covent Garden where a man used a poker, tongs and chair to attack both the woman he was living with and PC Sweet. Later, the man attacked PC Sweet and PC Jaffray as they returned to arrest him. |
| Taylor | Samuel | 1921 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Thomas | John | 1921 | KPM | PS | Rescued a would-be suicidal lady from a dangerous window sill, despite her attacking him with a curtain rod. |
| Thomson | James Warrender | 1936 | KPM | PC | Posthumous. Sacrificed his life clearing pedestrians from the path of a heavy cement lorry out of control down Barnet Hill. His case led to the establishment of the Roll of Honour in Back Hall. See Encyclopedia. |
| Timmins | Harry | 1935 | KPM | PC | Awarded KPM as the result of action to save somebody from drowning in the River Thames, in another river or in a dock or canal. |
| Todd | Walter Henry | 1934 | KPM | PC | Arrested armed thief escaping from a garage whose confederate had just fired at him. |
| Turnell | Harry Joseph | 1938 | KPM | PC | Rescued small child from electrified train line near Blackheath and rescued small child from electrified train line near Blackheath and brought the child to safety despite receiving severe shock and danger from trains. |
| Turpin | Albert | 1928 | KPM | PC | Rescue from burning building |
| Vincent | Harold | 1925 | KPM | PC | Calmly talked armed burglar into putting down his weapon and surrendering to arrest. |
| Wallen | Robert | 1933 | KPM | PS | Seriously injured and invalided out of the Force when he successfully pushed a young girl out of the path of a car in Clerkenwell Road |
| Ward | Albert | 1926 | KPM | DDI | With DI James Bellinger and DS Robert Ellis, overpowered and arrested a known dangerous armed prison escapee who threatened them with a revolver which misfired. |
| Webber | Albert | 1920 | KPM | PC | Rescued a workman from poisonous fumes following a gas explosion in the lower compartments of the German battleship Baden, undergoing a refit at Invergordon, where PC Webber was seconded to the Royal Dockyards |
| Wilkins | Wilfrid Ivor Randolph | 1934 | BEM for gallantry | PC | With PC Miller, showed courage determination and skill in chasing & arresting two dangerous gangs of motor bandits within two nights of each other. PC Miller jumped on to running board and smashed windscreen with truncheon. Awarded £10 from Bow Street |
| Williams | Harry | 1920 | KPM | PC | Disarmed and arrested a drunken US Marine who was shooting at him near Grosvenor Square. |
| Williams | William | 1920 | KPM | PC | With 3 other officers went to Waterloo Station to arrest a suspect wanted by Surrey Police. The man produced an automatic pistol with which he incapacitated two officers, before Sgt Bird and PC Riches arrived and after a long chase arrested him. |
| Wood | Wallace | 1927 | KPM | PC | Rescued two workmen from poisonous bitulac gas in a narrow water main at Feltham. |
| Wood | 1933 | BEM | PC | PO 6-Jun-1933 King's birthday honours list | |
| Wright | Frederick | 1920 | KPM | PC | With PC Frederick Ost arrested an armed burglar who had fired seven shots at them and put shots through their clothing as they attempted to arrest him with an accomplice |
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