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A fine K.P.M. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. S. Daniell, Chief Constable of the Hertfordshire Constabulary, late 3rd Bombay Cavalry King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Lieut. Col. Henry Smith Daniell, late Ch. Const. Herts.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Cornet H. S. Daniell. 3rd Lt. Cavy.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Cornet H. S. Daniel, 3rd Regt. Bombay Cavy.); Coronation 1911, County & Borough Police, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn but the third now detached, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (4) £1800-2200 Footnote The following article is reproduced from the Police Review and Parade Gossip, September 4, 1893: ‘Lieut.-Colonel H. Smith Daniell, Chief Constable of the county of Hertford, is the sixth son of the late Mr. J. N. Daniell, of Sandown, Esher, Surrey. Born in 1839, and educated at Elstree and Rugby, he received his first commission in the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry in 1856, before he was 18 years of age. Having previously passed his drill in the Riding School of the 1st Life Guards, he was, on arrival in India, at once despatched in charge of a draft to join his regiment, then forming part of the Persian Expeditionary Field Force. After taking part in a few final skirmishes at the close of that campaign, Cornet Daniell returned with his regiment to India, where the Mutiny had broken out. He accompanied the squadrons of his regiment, which formed part of the Central India Field Force under the late Field Marshal Lord Strathnairne (then Sir Hugh Rose) throughout the campaign, taking part in the action at Baroda (where he was wounded), relief of Sagar, siege and capture of Jhansi, battles of Koonch and Goolowli, capture of Calpee and Gwalior, and battle of Jowra Alipoor. Cornet Daniell also took part in the quelling of disturbance resulting from the Indian Rebellion in Central India, and was thrice mentioned in despatches. On the return of the regiment to the Bombay Presidency in 1860 Lieutenant Daniell was appointed Adjutant and Acting Second in Command of Gujarat Irregular Horse, whence he was summoned by the late Sir Bartle Frere, then Governor of Bombay, to proceed to the province of Khandeish on special duty to effect the apprehension of a notorious outlaw. The outlaw, however, had surrendered previous to Lieutenant Daniell’s arrival. This was the introduction of the subject of our sketch to Police service, in 1861. He obtained an exchange of appointments from the Irregular Cavalry to the Khandeish Bheel Corps – a corps raised by the late Sir Francis Outram, and forming part of the Police of Khandeish. Lieutenant Daniell’s appointment as Adjutant included the position of Assistant-Superintendent of the Khandeish Police, and from this date he served continuously in the District Police of Bombay, rising through the several grades of Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent, and serving in various districts of the Bombay Presidency. In 1871, when serving as Chief of the Police in the Abmednuggur District, Captain Daniell distinguished himself in a single-handed encounter with two fully armed Sepoys of a native infantry battalion, who, after shooting down a Police Sergeant and a private individual, decamped from their regiment. Captain Daniell mounted, and, armed with an old Enfield muzzle-loading rifle, which he had seized from the Police Armoury, came upon the Sepoys in the open country some ten hours after their flight. Calling upon them to surrender and throw down their arms, they refused, and after vain attempts to keep them in check until the arrival of some of his men, whom he had outstripped, and to prevent their gaining the shelter of an enclosed temple, Capt. Daniell was compelled to receive their fire in the open. He returned the compliment, and his one shot passed from the arm of one of his antagonists into the body of the other. The more severely wounded man died, and the other was hanged in due course of law. In 1874 Capt. Danie