Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Police Constable D. Fleming, Edinburgh City Police
Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. David Fleming) mounted as worn, good very fine

Pair: Police Constable A. J. Stewart, City of London Police, late Scots Guards
Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. Albert J. Stewart.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘336129 Albert J. Stewart’, good very fine

Pair: Special Constable A. L. Thomson, Berwickshire Special Constabulary
Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Andrew L. Thomson) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Arthur Rackham) good very fine (9) £100-£140

David Fleming was born in Leith on 20 July 1906 and joined the Edinburgh City Police on 2 October 1926. He retired on 9 March 1959, and died in 1963. Coronation Medal confirmed.

Albert John Stewart was born in Portsmouth in 1901 and attested for the Scots Guards at Winchester on 3 July 1919. Promoted Corporal on 25 March 1924, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 2 July 1926, and was discharged on 2 July 1931, after 12 years’ service. He joined the City of London Police in July 1926, and retired to pension in July 1951, after 25 years’ service.

Andrew Lambert Thompson was born in Brotherstone, Berwickshire, on 28 March 1903. He died in Peebles on 18 May 1984.

Arthur Edward Rackham was born in Ipswich in 1892 and attested for the Suffolk Regiment, serving with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 November 1914. Discharged on 2 June 1916, he subsequently attested for the Royal Air Force on 10 July 1918, and served as an Officers’ Mess Waiter.

Sold with 4 memory sticks containing copied research, including a photographic image of Stewart.