Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Band Sergeant-Major Chaitezwi, B.E.M., British South Africa Police
War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, with Bar (9828 African Sgt. 2 Cl. Chaitezwi, B.S.A. Police), contact wear, nearly very fine and better (2) £120-140

Chaitezwi enlisted in the B.S.A.P. in November 1935 and was awarded the War Medal 1939-45 and the L.S. & G.C. Medal in May 1954. A long served member of the force’s band, he added the B.E.M. to his accolades on 5 January 1962 (Southern Rhodesia Government Gazette of that date refers), together with a Bar to his L.S. & G.C. Medal in the same month. He retired in November of the following year.

Sold with an interesting copied article from The Outpost, June 1957, describing the presentation of a magnificent Drum-Major’s sash, emblazoned with the names of all of the old forces from which the B.S.A.P. originated, and Chaitwezi’s prerogative to hand out corporal punishment where appropriate, for which, as a result of the physical effort involved, ‘he was entitled, according to Army Regulations, to receive an extra shilling per chastisement, of which three pence went to the Quarter Master for the use of the “cat”. We understand, however, that no such arrangement is in force between Acting Sergeant Chaitezwi and the present Quarter-Master, B.S.A.P.’