Auction Catalogue

12 May 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

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Lot

№ 629

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12 May 2015

Hammer Price:
£480

Four: Assistant Superintendent C. O. P. Lewis, Bechuanaland Police, late Yorkshire Hussars

British War and Victory Medals (3189 Pte. C. Lewis, York. Hrs.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Asst. Supt. Clifford O. P. Lewis, Bechuanaland Police) first with scratch to King’s cheek, second with edge bruise, generally good very fine (4) £300-350

Colonial Police Medal, for Meritorious Service London Gazette 13 June 1946.

Sold with a letter of congratulations to Captain Lewis, Bechuanaland Police, dated 13 June 1946, for the award of a Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service, from Brigadier A. S. Mavrogordato, O.B.E., Office of the High Commission, Pretoria; a photograph of King George VI presenting the medal to Lewis; with copied m.i.c. and gazette extract.