Orders, Decorations and Medals

A M.B.E., Indian Police Medal group of three awarded to Acting Commissioner Lindsay Arthur Paddon Row, Indian Police

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Indian Police Medal, G.VI.R., for Distinguished Conduct (L. A. Paddon Row, I.P., Dy. Commr. of Police, Bombay); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £350-400

M.B.E. London Gazette 12 June 1947. ‘District Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad District, Bombay’.

Lindsay Arthur Paddon Row (or Paddonrow) was born on 18 February 1912. He joined the Indian Police as a Probationary Assistant Superintendent at Bombay in November 1932 and was confirmed in that rank in November 1934. Appointed Superintendent in February 1943 and Deputy Commissioned, Bombay, in February 1943.

Sold with riband bar and some copied research. Name given as ‘Patton-Row’ in gazette.