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25 & 26 September 2019

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№ 78

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25 September 2019

Hammer Price:
£2,200

A K.P.M. awarded to Chief Inspector H. W. Crane, Royal Irish Constabulary, who served during the Irish Land Wars of the 1880s and the Sinn Fein violence in co. Offaly following on from the Easter Rising, 1917-1919

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Herbert Wm. Crane, Ch. Insp. R.I.C.) in fitted case of issue, extremely fine £600-£800

K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1920.

Medal presented 19 May 1920: ‘Chief Inspector Crane was in charge of the police in King's County and had to deal with disorders in connection with Land Agitation and Sinn Fein. Throughout his 40 years’ service he has performed his duties in a very satisfactory manner’ (
Irish Times 29 May 1920 refers)