Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: African Sergeant Mapuranka, British South Africa Police, who died of injuries received on patrol in the Chibi Reserve, Rhodesia

War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (11217 African Sgt. Mapuranka, B.S.A), generally good very fine (2) £180-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Series of Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. Awards to the British South Africa Police.

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Regis Felix Mapuranka Kwenda (No. 11217), who hailed from the Bikita District, enlisted in the British South Africa Police in October 1943. Advanced to African Sergeant in April 1954, he was posted to Chibi as senior N.C.O. in October 1959. Sadly, however, as confirmed by his obituary in Mapolisa, he died at Fort Victoria Hospital on 2 October 1962 ‘as a result of injuries received when he was assaulted while carrying out a patrol in the Dayira area of the Chibi Reserve on 26 September’. Described as an ‘efficient and capable N.C.O. who maintained discipline with a firm hand’, Mapuranka had been awarded his Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. in June of 1962; sold with related research and copy obituary.