The first recipients of the Elizabeth Emblem award aimed at emergency service workers who die in the line of duty has been revealed.
The new 'Elizabeth Emblem' award, named after the late Queen Elizabeth, will officially recognise more than 30 police officers, firefighters, and public servants who died in the line of duty.The first recipients of the award are PC Nicola Hughes, 23, and PC Fiona Bone, 32, who were shot dead in Greater Manchester in 2012 following a bogus 999 call relating to a burglary. King Charles will award the first few Elizabeth Emblems to the next of kin of the deceased later this year.
Firefighter Leslie Marsh, who died after an accident while attending a fire in Birmingham, will also be honoured, alongside William Wallace - a Glasgow Fire Service firefighter who died in a warehouse fire in 1960. William Cruickshank, the son of the late Mr Wallace, told the BBC: "Obviously, it doesn't make up for the fact my dad died in service," but added that he thought it was a "positive" move.
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