This auction is for an
original full-sized medal

Queen Victoria Jubilee (Police) Medal, 1887
with Diamond Jubilee bar, 1897

The bronze medal is named as follows:
PC. T. WORT. T. DIVN

Thomas Wort was born in Fordingbridge during 1847. Thomas Wort joined the Metropolitan Police on the 29th August 1870, under the warrant number 53145. In 1871 he was lodged and serving at Broadway Police Station, Hammersmith, London. In 1874 he married Jane Gynn.

In 1876 PC Thomas Wort, 431 T, arrested Frederick Treadaway, who had shot to death one Mr. John Collins at Pimlico. PC Wort gave evidence at the coroner’s inquest. Treadaway was tried at the Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey, in 1877. He was found guilty of the wilful murder of Mr. Collins and sentenced to death. However, Treadaway’s sentence was respited following an assessment of his mental state. He was order to serve a life sentence of penal servitude.

In 1881 Constable Wort lived with his wife, Jane, and two children at 2, Bath Place, Bath Road. Heston, Isleworth. In 1887 he received Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Police Medal. In 1891 Thomas and Jane Wort and their two children lived in Trinity Villa, Lampton Road, Heston.

According to Metropolitan Police records Constable Wort, of ‘T’ Division, left the Police on the 7th September 1896. However, I am told by an informant that records show that he was briefly recalled to serve with the police on the 21st June 1897, along with other retired policemen, to bolster the policing of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. This explains PC Wort's entitlement to the 1897 Diamond Jubilee bar.

In 1911 Thomas was living with his wife and his daughter, Lily, at 67, Charlwood Street, Pimlico. He was employed as a night-watchman. Thomas Wort passed away in 1919.


The medal was part of a late friend's collection. 

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