Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Imperial Service Medal, E.VII.R. (William Hawkins), in Elkington, London case of issue

Pair: Police Sergeant W. Hawkins, Metropolitan Police

Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C., G. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.S.), mounted as worn, extremely fine (3) £50-70

I.S.M. to William Hawkins sold with Home Office transmittal slip for the I.S.M., dated July 1910, awarded for service with H.M. Customs and a newspaper cutting covering the award of the I.S.M. An extract from the cutting reads, ‘The honoured recipient on this occasion was Mr W. Hawkins, who recently retired on superanuation, after a service of 35 years with the outdoor branch, principally in the detective branch, but latterly as storekeeper at Gravesend. Captain Graham, R.N. (Inspector), in making the presentation ... humerously remarked that the only thing they had against him was his good record of special service in Ireland and on the detective staff generally....’

Pair to William Hawkins sold with Certificate of Exemption from Military Service dated 1916; Metropolitan Police Certificate of Service dated 1924; a note of commendation to Constable Hawkins from the jury of a fraud case, together with four copied sheets concerning service with the Metropolitan Police.

William Hawkins was born on 7 February 1878 at Gravesend, Kent. He entered the Metropolitan Police as a Constable in ‘G’ Division on 20 February 1899 and retired as a Sergeant in the Highgate (Y) Division on 24 February 1924.