Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: African Station Sergeant Paradzayi, British South Africa Police, one time the recipient of a Commissioner’s Commendation

War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (10306 African Stat. Sgt., B.S.A. Police); St. John Service Medal (10306 Pte. (7428)), generally very fine or better (3) £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Series of Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. Awards to the British South Africa Police.

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Paradzayi was born in the Makoni District in 1918 and enlisted in the British South Africa Police in 1938. Posted to Gatooma Town, he was transferred to Salisbury at the end of the 1939-45 War, where he served variously at Avondale, Harare, the Highlands and Waterfalls, and won a Commissioner’s Commendation in 1949 under the following circumstances:

‘The Commissioner has much pleasure in granting a Commendation to No. 10306 A./2/Sgt. Paradzayi, Salisbury Urban, for displaying zeal, initiative and ability in effecting the arrest of a native criminal, who was subsequently convicted of 22 offences against property.’

Paradzayi was killed in a road accident in December 1959; sold with related research.