Orders, Decorations and Medals

Great War Local Issue Special Constabulary Medals (6), comprising, City of Coventry, in silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1917, 32mm, obverse with arms of Coventry and inscription ‘City of Coventry Special Constabulary’, reverse inscribed ‘For Long Service 1914, awarded to A. Pargetter’, single loop suspension; Glasgow, silver, hallmarks for Glasgow 1918, 25mm, obverse with arms of Glasgow and inscription ‘1914-1919, Let Glasgow Flourish’, reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the corporation of Glasgow to Henry S. Catchpole, Special Constable, in acknowledgement of services rendered’, with single loop suspension; Cardiff, in bronze, 32mm, obverse with arms of Cardiff, reverse inscribed ‘Cardiff City Special Police, The Great War 1914-19’, suspension consisting of two crossed truncheons, with double loop, ribbon and ribbon brooch, old repair to suspension; Leith, in bronze, 35mm, obverse with arms of Leith and inscription ‘Leith Special Constabulary’, reverse inscribed ‘For long and continuous service 1914-1918’, edge inscribed ‘George Macnamara’, with claw and swivelling straight bar suspension, harshly cleaned; Birmingham Corporation Water Works Guard 1914-1918, bronze Medal; Birmingham Special Constabulary Long Service Medal 1916, in bronze, reverse inscibed ‘F. W. Matchett’; together with Devon Special Constabulary button-hole badge, in bronze gilt and enamels, generally good very fine (7) £80-120