Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Police Constable J. G. G. Pearson

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 4th type, silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles flush with the background, named to reverse ‘Presented to PC. 1209 J. G. G. Pearson 23rd February 1978 by The Lord Baliff of Egle’; Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. John. G. G. Pearson); St. John Service Medal, unnamed as issued; together with an A.C.C. Distinguished Service badge with Five Years Service bar (J. G. G. Pearson 1989); and two Police No. 2 District Championships Tug o’ War Prize Medals, for 1959 and 1962, nearly extremely fine (6) £80-£120

John George Gooch Pearson was born on 23 October 1926 and joined the Durham County Police Force on 7 January 1950, serving with them as a Police Constable in Easington and Peterlee until his retirement n 1978.

Pearson joined the St. John Ambulance Brigade on 13 December 1968, and became Divisional Superintendent to the Peterlee Division, before becoming Area Staff Officer for the East Durham Divisional Area. He was appointed a Serving Brother of the Order of St. Jon in 1978, and died at Horden on 16 November 1994.

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