Orders, Decorations and Medals

Hartlepool Special Constabulary Medal 1914-1918, silver, 35mm, obverse with crest of Hartlepool, reverse inscribed ‘Borough of Hartlepool Special Constable, Bombardment 1914, Air Raids 1915-18, Zeppelin Destroyed 1916’, with original claw and straight bar suspension; together with, Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., with bar, The Great War 1914-18 (Anthony D. Short) both medals believed to have been awarded to the same recipient, good very fine and rare £250-300

Approximately 116 of these medals were issued to members of the Hartlepool Special Constabulary for their services during the Great War.