Auction Catalogue

8 February 2010

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

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Lot

№ 5

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8 February 2010

Hammer Price:
£60

Pair: Acting African Station Sergeant Nyepergwayi, British South Africa Police

War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police Forces L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (8622 Native 2nd Sgt. Nyepergwayi, B.S.A. Police), officially re-impressed naming, minor contact wear, very fine and better (2) £60-80

Nyepergwayi enlisted in the British South Africa Police in January 1929 and served in Salisbury, Hillside and Umtali during his subsequent career, gaining his Colonial Police Forces L.S. & G.C. in April 1947 and a Bar in October 1954. Advanced to Acting Station Sergeant in March 1955, he retired in June of the following year and settled in the Maranke Reserve; sold with copied retirement notice.