Auction Catalogue

14 April 2021

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 730

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14 April 2021

Hammer Price:
£1,100

Hong Kong Police Medal for Merit, G.V.R., 4th Class bronze medal, unnamed; together with a set of six miniature dress medals comprising 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Colonial Police Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue, for Meritorious Service; Colonial Police Forces L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, these mounted as worn, also with related brooch mounted riband bar, nearly extremely fine (7) £140-£180

Sold together with a photograph, 118mm x 155mm, captioned to the reverse: ‘Fred receiving Colonial Police medal from Governor Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham. 15th Dec 1957.’

Possibly the former property of Frederick George Appleton, Chief Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force whose Colonial Police Medal was notified in the
London Gazette of 2 January 1956.