Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Sergeant Owen Wessel Varnfield, South Africa Police

South Africa Faithful Service Medal, 1st issue (NC1608(F) 2/C Sergeant C. W. Varnfield); Cape of Good Hope S.P.C.A. Medal, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘For Special Services Sergt. F. (sic) Varnfield, Maitland, S.A.P., 1927, complete with silver brooch bar, nearly extremely fine (2) £200-250

Owen Wessel Varnfield was born in Grahamstown on 14 May 1881. He attested for the South African Police on 22 February 1904 at Humansdorp and was promoted to Lance-Corporal in November 1915, Corporal in June 1917 and 2nd Class Sergeant in October 1919. He was discharged at Maitland - a suburb of Cape Town in 1931. ‘O. W. Varnfield’ and ‘F. Varnfied’ are believed to be one and the same man who was awarded the Cape of Good Hope Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Medal. With copied police service sheet.