Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A K.P.M. awarded to District Superintendent C. H. M. Roberts, Myaungmya, Burma Police

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Cecil Herbert Munro Roberts, Dist. Supt., Myaungmya, Burma C. Pol.) naming rubbed but as issued, on ‘distinguished service’ ribbon, in red leather case of issue, nearly extremely fine £300-400

Ex D.N.W. 4 April 2001.

K.P.M. Gazette of India 17 February 1917. ‘Mr Roberts joined the Police Department in 1892, and throughout his service has been constantly well reported on by his superior officers. He has been in charge of some of the most criminal districts in Burma for the past eight years and has dealt with crime in a most able manner. He has never spared himself and bears an excellent record in connection and detection of crime.’

Cecil Herbert Munro Roberts was born in 1872 in Sowersham, Huntingdonshire. He married Winifred G. Pine-Coffin at Kensington in 1918. He died in the Williton District of Somerset in 1934.

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