Five: Police Sergeant Glen Dower, Metropolitan Police, late Army Hospital Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (4534 Pte., A.H.C.) naming re-touched, brooch marks to reverse and heavily pitted; Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C., W. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.S., J. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.S.); Khedive’s Star 1882, named; together with the pair awarded to his son, Police Constable Owen Glen Dower, comprising Defence Medal and Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C.), the first fine, otherwise about nearly very fine or better (7) £120-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of R.W. Gould, MBE.

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Glen Dower was born at Clerkenwell, London, in May 1862. He enlisted into the Army Hospital Crops on 10 July 1880, and served in Natal during the First Boer War from 25 January 1881. He returned from South Africa in January 1882, and in August of that year embarked at Portsmouth on the S.S. Marathon for Egypt, where he was present at Tel-El-Kebir. Glen Dower joined the Metropolitan Police on 23 June 1884 and retired on pension on 28 June 1909. He was recalled from the reserve for the Coronation of King George V.

Owen Glen Dower was born at Clapham, London, on 7 July 1888, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 22 November 1911. He had five commendations during his career, including one for an air raid on 19 May 1918. He retired on pension on 25 November 1934, and died on 7 February 1972, aged 84.