Police and troops at the Siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants that resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary was present.

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Location: Sidney Street, London, UK
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
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