Orders, Decorations and Medals

A rare Great War German East Africa operations M.M. awarded to Private Angoma, 1/2 King’s African Rifles, who was wounded on the occasion he won his decoration at Mahiwa in October 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1575 Pte. Angoma, 1/2 K.A.R.), severe edge bruising and heavily polished, thus fair £250-300

M.M. East African Force G.R.O. No. 1192, dated 17 October 1917.

Angoma, a native of the Nyanja Tribe from the Dedza District, enlisted in the King’s African Rifles in October 1915. Winning his M.M. for the action fought at Mahiwa on 17 October 1917, when he was wounded in the left thigh, he was advanced to Lance-Corporal in December 1917 and discharged in May 1919.