Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Constable Idi, Nyasaland Police
Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (12 Con.. Idi) mounted for wear, last plugged at apex of king’s crown, dents, edge bruising, contact marks, suspension refixed, poor, first better

Pair: Superintendent Numero, Nyasaland Police
Malawi Independence Medal 1964, unnamed; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Insp. Numero, Nyasaland Police) mounted for wear, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £100-140

Constable Idi awarded the Jubilee Medal (Nyasaland Gazette 6 May 1935); Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. (Nyasaland Gazette 31 January 1936). Granted exemption for paying hut tax for one hut for life (Nyasaland Gazette 31 March 1923). With copied gazette extracts and extracts from A History of the Malawi Police Force. One of only two Malawi policemen awarded the Jubilee Medal.

Numero, latterly a Superintendent in the Malawi Police, with a copied group photograph with him at that rank; also with some biographical details concerning Numero as a member of the Malawi Police Band (with a copied photograph of Numero as a young bandsman) and as a member of staff at St. Andrew’s School.