Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Acting Assistant Commissioner F. A. D. Edmeston, Bechuanaland Administration, late British South Africa Police

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Sergt. F. A. D. Edmeston, 1/B.S.A. Police); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (F. A. D. Edmeston) late issue; Africa Service Medal (ACF143559 F. A. D. Edmeston) nearly extremely fine (3) £400-500

As a Sergeant in the British South Africa Police, Francis Arthur Douglas Edmeston was awarded the B.S.A. Co. Medal for service in Rhodesia during 1896. As an Acting Assistant Commissioner in the Bechuanaland Administration he was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal in 1917. The medal was sent to a P.O. Box at Denver, near Johannesburg. Awarded the Africa Service Medal as a Sergeant in the Active Citizens Force. At this time he was living at Ednam Cottage, Redhouse, Cape Province. With copied research.