Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private C. Sopp, Hampshire Regiment, later Metropolitan Police

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1885-7, clasps remounted in this order, as usual (834. Pte. C. Sopp 2d. Bn. Hamps. R.); Jubilee 1897, bronze, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Sopp. W. Divn.); Coronation 1911, bronze, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Sapp [sic]. W. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Sopp.) good very fine (4) £240-£280

Charles Sopp was born in Ham, Hungerford, Berkshire, on 29 June 1867 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 6 April 1883, giving his year of birth as 1864. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from 12 March 1885 to 21 January 1891, and transferred to the Reserve on 29 January 1891. He was discharged on 5 April 1895, after 12 years’ service.

Sopp enlisted in the Metropolitan Police on 1 June 1891, and was posted to ‘F’ Division. He transferred to ‘W’ (Clapham) Division on 24 February 1897, and resigned to pension on 7 July 1919.

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