Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Company Sergeant-Major K. Kaporo, King’s African Rifles

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; King’s African Rifles L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Z 11084 C.S.M. Khangawa Kaporo, K.A.R.), generally very fine (4) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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Khangawa Koporo, a native of the Atonga Tribe, enlisted in the King’s African Rifles at Zomba in February 1929 and served in both the 1st and 2nd Battalions during his ensuing career, including several months in Abyssinia and Somalia during the 1939-45 War. He was finally discharged as a Company Sergeant-Major in October 1945, the award of his L.S. & G.C. Medal having been approved by the Nyasaland Military Records Office in the same year; sold with copied service record, which confirms his application for replacement 1939-45 campaign awards in the early 1960s.