Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sub-Divisional Inspector A. Copping, Metropolitan Police

Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. A. Copping. V. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.S. A. Copping. W. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (Insp. A. Copping.) very fine and better (3) £80-£120

Arthur Copping was born in Wilby, Suffolk, in 1870 and ‘joined the Metropolitan Police at Wimbledon in 1890, later serving in several station in North London. He came from an old police family, with three of his brothers and several of his nephews also serving in the Force. His promotion was unusually rapid, and when he was made an Inspector on going to Islington, he was one of the youngest Inspectors in the kingdom. His police service, which covered 27 years, included 15 years as Inspector and 9 as Sub-Divisional Inspector, and he held an exemplary conduct certificate, and three medals.’ He retired in 1917, and died in Brentwood, Middlesex, on 22 June 1931.

Sold with copied newspaper cuttings including a photographic image of the recipient wearing his three medals.