Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance-Corporal R. L. Cassam, Military Foot Police, later Metropolitan Police, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 5 November 1917

1914-15 Star (P.1587. L-Cpl. R. L. Cassam. M.P.F.); British War and Victory Medals (P-1587 L.Cpl. L. Cassam. M.F.P.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., R. Cassam.) very fine (4) £120-£160

Robert Louis Cassam was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, on 6 December 1884 and joined the Metropolitan Police on 26 November 1906. Posted initially to ‘G’ (Finsbury) Division, he transferred to ‘X” (Kilburn) Division on 12 May 1910, before attesting for the Military Foot Police on 13 June 1915. He served with the Military Foot Police during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 5 November 1917. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, France.

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