Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Inspector D. L. C. Pharazyn, Kenya Police, late Lieutenant, Black Watch

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (M.549 I.P.I.(R) D. L. C. Pharazyn.) good very fine (3) £140-£180

Dennis Louis Charles Pharazyn was born on 7 November 1925, and educated at Marlborough College, May 1939-July 1943. He enlisted into the R.A.F. in 1944, joined the Black Watch in 1945 and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant on 7 April 1946, and attached to 2nd Gurkha Rifles, 1946-47. He relinquished his commission in November 1953 and was granted honorary rank of Lieutenant. He was by then a resident farmer at Kitale, Kenya, where he also served in the Police Reserve. In June 1954, he and another European Kenya Police Reserve officer were both acquitted at Nakuru of a charge of assaulting and causing bodily harm to a Kikuyu Mau Mau suspect. Pharazyn later ran a small charter company called Pharazyn Air Charters at Kitale, a centre for European settlers in the Kenya Highlands. He was killed in a freak flying accident on Karkloof ridge on the evening of 11 November 1969. Sold with full research including several copied news cuttings covering the court proceedings of his trial.