Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lance-Corporal A. E. Standen, 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, afterwards British South Africa Police Reserve

1914-15 Star (1042 Pte., 2-Rhodesia Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (1042 L.-Cpl., 2-Rhodesia Regt.); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Arthur E. Standen), the earlier awards a little polished, otherwise generally very fine and a particularly rare combination of awards (5) £400-500

Arthur Edward Standen, the son of Frederick Watt Standen, a Manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa, and the grandson of a Deputy Assistant Commissary General in the British Army, first entered the African theatre of war as a Private in the 2nd Rhodesian Regiment in March 1915. He subsequently served in the 1939-45 War as a Constable in the British South Africa Police Reserve in Umtali District, Southern Rhodesia, and was awarded his Special Constabulary Long Service Medal in February 1946; also see Lot 32 for his Grandfather’s South Africa 1834-53 Medal.