Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Superintendent J. G. H. Brett, Malaya Police, late Straits Settlements Police

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Supt., Malaya Police); Colonial Police Forces Medal for Meritorious Service, G.VI.R. (Asst./Supt., Fed. of Malaya Police), good very fine and better (6) £300-350

John George Hume Brett was born in October 1909 and completed his education at Dublin University. Entering the Straits Settlements Police in October 1930, he served variously at Penang and Singapore in the period leading upto the 1939-45 War, and was almost certainly among those interned by the Japanese. The award of his Colonial Police Medal, awarded to him in the rank of Assistant Superintendent, Malaya Police, was announced in the Federation of Malaya Gazette on 10 June 1948.