Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare K.P.M. for Gallantry group of five awarded to Assistant Superintendent L. W. C. Byrde, Straits Settlements and Singapore Police

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Lydmar William Charles Byrde. Insp. of Police, Straits Settlements.) on Gallantry riband; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Asst Supt. C. W. [sic] Byrde. S’pore Police.) good very fine (5) £1,500-£2,000

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2005.

K.P.M. for Gallantry London Gazette 1 January 1932.

Lydmar William Charles Byrde appears in a list of five ‘Gallantry’ K.P.Ms published in the Singapore Police’s annual report for 1931, the same source concluding:
‘With the exception of the first named officer, all the above were from time to time in action against armed bad characters and some of them, particularly Inspectors Byrde and MacIntosh, were fortunate in not succumbing to gun-shot wounds.’