Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 December 2008

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 561

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5 December 2008

Hammer Price:
£110

A Rhodesian pair of medals awarded to Sergeant Sigeca, British South Africa Police, who was twice Commended for his actions

Rhodesia, General Service Medal (12413 Sgt. Sigaca (R)); Police L.S. & G.C. Medal (12413 Sgt., Sigeca) slight edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £80-100

Commendation B.S.A. Police Force Orders 17 May 1962 ‘The Commissioner has much pleasure in awarding a Commendation to No. 6122 Constable Evans, and a Commendation with a monetary award of £2 to No. 12413 African Sergeant Sigeca of Police, Matobo, for the thorough and painstaking investigations undertaken by them following numerous cases of malicious injury to property occuring in the Matopos National Park during November, 1961.

At the time, and following various meetings in the area, there was considerable political unrest, manifesting itself in the filling in of dip tanks and associated acts of violence with the apparent intention of intimidating officials. The successful conviction of various offenders was the culmination of praiseworthy and persevering investigations on the parts of Constable Evans ans African Sergeant Sigeca’.

Commendation
B.S.A. Police Force Orders 17 June 1965 ‘The Commissioner has much pleasure in awarding a Commendation to No. 5662 Section Officer Henson, and to No. 12413 Sgt. Sigeca, Mat. Prov., in recognition of the initiative and detirmination they displayed in rescue operations at Mphoengs on the 23rd May 1965.

On the morning of this date, Section Officer Henson and Sgt. Sigeca proceeded to an old well in answer to a call for assistance. On arrival, Sgt. Sigeca immediately climbed down into the well, which was over 60 feet in depth, to find, at the bottom, a seriously injured African woman who had fallen into the well earlier that day. As Sgt. Sigeca was unable to effect the rescue alone, Section Officer Henson joined him at the bottom of the well. Together, after a long and arduous struggle under the most difficult conditions including the danger of personal injury from falling debris, they managed to raise their patient to the surface. Only then was it possible for the woman to receive urgently needed medical attention for injures received from the fall, which included a fractured skull and deep lacerations of the head and body’. Sold with copied research and copied photograph.