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Five: Sergeant Mutandwa, Rhodesian Police, late British South Africa Police Rhodesia, Gen...
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Five: Sergeant Mutandwa, Rhodesian Police, late British South Africa Police Rhodesia, General Service Medal (11528 Sgt. Mutandwa); Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. (11528 Sgt. Mutandwa), edge stamped ‘(R.)’ for replacement; Great Britain, War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (11528 African Const., Mutandwa B.S.A. Police) ‘ice’ of ‘Police’ privately engraved; Service Medal of the Order of St. John, unnamed, generally good very fine (5) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. Mutandwa was born at Gutu in Southern Rhodesia in June 1924 and, having worked at the Iscor Steel Works on the outskirts of Pretoria, returned home and enlisted in British South Africa Police in June 1945. Thereafter, in a long career spanning nearly 30 years, he held assorted appointments in Salisbury, Gwelo, Selukwe and Bulawayo, among them Court Orderly and Interpreter, Licence Inspector and “Sudden Death Dockets” Compiler. Awarded the St. John Service Medal in 1960 and his Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. in January 1972, he retired in December of the following year and became a lay preacher in the Dutch Reform Church. Sold with three original St. John Ambulance certificates, dated March 1949, December 1958 and October 1960, together with the recipient’s B.S.A.P. certificate of service, dated December 1973, these in generally worn damaged and stained but very scarce surviving documents to an African recipient.
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Five: Sergeant Mutandwa, Rhodesian Police, late British South Africa Police Rhodesia, General Service Medal (11528 Sgt. Mutandwa); Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. (11528 Sgt. Mutandwa), edge stamped ‘(R.)’ for replacement; Great Britain, War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (11528 African Const., Mutandwa B.S.A. Police) ‘ice’ of ‘Police’ privately engraved; Service Medal of the Order of St. John, unnamed, generally good very fine (5) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. Mutandwa was born at Gutu in Southern Rhodesia in June 1924 and, having worked at the Iscor Steel Works on the outskirts of Pretoria, returned home and enlisted in British South Africa Police in June 1945. Thereafter, in a long career spanning nearly 30 years, he held assorted appointments in Salisbury, Gwelo, Selukwe and Bulawayo, among them Court Orderly and Interpreter, Licence Inspector and “Sudden Death Dockets” Compiler. Awarded the St. John Service Medal in 1960 and his Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. in January 1972, he retired in December of the following year and became a lay preacher in the Dutch Reform Church. Sold with three original St. John Ambulance certificates, dated March 1949, December 1958 and October 1960, together with the recipient’s B.S.A.P. certificate of service, dated December 1973, these in generally worn damaged and stained but very scarce surviving documents to an African recipient.
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