Sidney Excell
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Sidney Excell | |
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| Born | 23 December 1906 |
| Died | December 1990 (aged 83–84) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Rank | Major |
Sidney Excell (23 December 1906 – December 1990) was a British Army major during World War II. He is remembered for the 1945 arrest of Nazi Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in Bremervörde, Germany.
Educated at marine school in Chatham, Excell worked as an apprenticed shoe maker before joining the metropolitan police and then volunteering for the Palestine Police, in which he served in the 1930s. There he met his wife, Lisa, a Jewish Russian-Polish immigrant who had emigrated with her family to escape pogroms. They then left Palestine and went to England (British police were not allowed to fraternise with Jews or Arabs in Palestine). They were then married in Epping Essex.
