Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An unusual group of seven awarded to Chief Inspector (Reservist) E. I. C. Wyllie, Kenya Police, late Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force and Midshipman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (Mid. E. I. C. Wylle. R.N.V.R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (E.2396 C.I. (R) E. J. [sic] C. Wyllie.) edge bruising and contact marks, surname officially corrected on last, very fine (7) £220-£260

Eric Ian Carew Wyllie was born in Hoo, Kent, around October 1900. He served as a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Great War and was commissioned into the Royal Air Force, General Duties Branch, for service during the Second War. Post War he served as a Police Reservist in the Kenya Police. Advanced Chief Inspector, he served during the ‘Mau Mau’ emergency and died in Ealing, London around December 1973.

Sold with copied Great War medal roll extracts confirming the additional award of a Silver War Badge, No. 20489, and a copied London Gazette entry dated 20 January 1942, confirming his correct initials, as ‘E.I.C.’ and not ‘E.J.C.’ a mistake that was presumably replicated upon his enlistment into the Kenya Police.