Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare post-war B.E.M. group of three awarded to Platoon Warrant Officer Mutale Kaluba, Northern Rhodesia Regiment

British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (ZBK/668 Pl. W./O. Mutale Kaluba, N.R. Regt.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (NRA. 668 Sgt. Mutale Kaluwa, N.R.R.); Coronation 1953, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally about very fine (3) £300-350

B.E.M. London Gazette 12 June 1958.

Matule Kaluba was awarded his B.E.M. on the recommendation of H.M’s Ministers of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, but no trace has been found of his name on the Coronation 1953 Medal roll, or not at least under the listings for colonial and overseas’ recipients.