LONG SERVICE, CORONATION AND JUBILEE MEDALS 553
VOLUNTEER FORCE LONG SERVICE (INDIA & THE COLONIES), G.V.R. (Pte. H. Matthews, 2 N.W. Ry. R., A.F.I.) officially impressed naming, good very fine
£40-50 2nd Battalion North Western Railway Regiment, Auxiliary Forces India. Matthews was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal published in I.A.O. 528 of August 1932. With some copied research. 554 555 EFFICIENCY MEDAL, E.II.R., 2nd issue, New Zealand, unnamed specimen, extremely fine £40-60
COLONIAL POLICE L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (8823 African Sgt. Cl. 2 Takaendisa, B.S.A. Police), one or two minor official corrections and edge bruises, better than very fine
£50-70
Takaendisa, who was from Mrewa District, enlisted in the B.S.A.P. in November 1939, and was subsequently awarded the War Medal 1939-45, in addition to his L.S. & G.C. Medal. In early 1947, he was also received a Commissioner’s Commendation for his observant actions as a Court Orderly in early 1947, actions that led to the arrest of a thief - accompanying copied feature from Mapolisa refers. He retired in February 1952.
556 557 COLONIAL POLICE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (10968 Afr. 1/Sgt. Toga, B.S.A.P.), edge bruise, good very fine £40-60
Toga enlisted in the B.S.A.P. in June 1942 and was awarded the War Medal 1939-45, in addition to his L.S. & G.C. Medal, issued in February 1961. He retired in November 1964.
COLONIAL POLICE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (10516 A/2/Sgt. Nyanje, B. S.A. Police), edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £40-60
Nyanje enlisted in the B.S.A.P. in April 1940 and was awarded the War Medal 1939-45, in addition to his L.S. & G.C. Medal issued in April 1959. He retired in April 1964, after 23 years service to the band, a retirement feature in the Outpost describing his renown ‘throughout the country as a solo French horn player’; sold with copied band photograph, including Nyanje.
558
COLONIAL POLICE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (10906 Afr./Det. 1/Sgt. Nyamayaro, B.S.A.P.), edge bruising, nearly very fine
£40-60 The following retirement feature appeared in the Outpost in July 1964:
‘After completing his education at Domboshawa School, African Detective Station Sergeant Nyamayaro attested in the B.S.A.P. in 1941 and was posted to the Town Branch of the Force. He transferred to C.I.D. five years later and in 1953 was promoted to African Detective Sergeant. He was advanced to the rank of Station Sergeant in 1962 and was awarded the Colonial Police Long Service Medal in 1960. Although his service has been mainly with C.I.D. Salisbury and C.I.D. Umtali, for the last year or so he has been stationed at Sinoia, from which station he went on retirement on pension on 31 May. He intends to farm on his own account in the Msengezi Purchase Area.’
559
COLONIAL POLICE L.S.&G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (9630 African Cl. 2 Sgt. Mahuna, B.S.A. Police), possible correction to rank and edge bruising, nearly very fine
£40-60
Mahuna enlisted in the B.S.A.P. in November 1934 and was awarded the War Medal 1939-45, in addition to his L.S. & G.C., the latter finally being approved in 1959 following earlier convictions on his service record. He was a popular member of the force, a lengthy obituary appearing in Mapolisa in November 1960 after his sudden death that September, at which a number of senior officers were in attendance; copied obituary and other details included.
560
Buckinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry Hussars. CORONATION 1821, silver (Thos. Hitchcock, 1st Regt. B.Y.C.H.), fitted with integral scroll suspension, traces of old
brooch-mounting and edge bruising, nearly very fine 561 £40-60
JUBILEE 1887, silver; JUBILEE 1897, silver; CORONATION 1911; together with B.R.C.S. medal for war service 1914-18, the first nearly very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4)
£180-220
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