Auction Catalogue

4 April 2001

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 1029

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4 April 2001

Hammer Price:
£160

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Cecil Herbert Munro Roberts, Dist. Supt. Myaungmya Burma C. Pol.) naming rubbed, but as issued, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £120-150

K.P.M. announced in the Gazette of India 17 February 1917. ‘Mr Roberts joined the Police Department in 1892, and throughout his service has been consistently well reported on by his superior officers. He has been in charge of some of the most criminal districts in Burma for the past eight years and has dealt with crime in a most able manner. He has never spared himself and bears a most excellent record in connection with the detection of crime.’