Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A K.P.M. pair awarded to Deputy Chief Constable R. Hannah, Warwickshire Constabulary

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Robert Hannah. Deputy Ch. Const. Warwick. Constab.); Coronation 1911, County and Borough Police (Robert Hannah. Deputy Ch. Const. Warwick. Constab.) mounted as worn and housed in a fitted case; together with the related miniature awards, good very fine (2) £500-£700

Dix Noonan Webb, February 1999.

K.P.M. presented by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace on 6 March 1912.

Robert Hannah was born in Cardiff in 1848. A shipwright by trade, he served for a short time, in 1866, in the General Post Office in Cardiff, and in 1867 became a volunteer in the 3rd Glamorgan Artillery Volunteers. The following year he signed on as a special constable, in consequence of an expected disturbance in connection with the Fenian movement. In May 1870, he joined the Metropolitan Force where he served in the Whitehall and Paddington Divisions. In December 1874 he joined the Warwickshire Force, in which he rose with prominence to become Deputy Chief Constable in 1898. During his long career he performed many Royal duties and was present when Queen Victoria opened St Thomas’ Hospital in 1872, and also when the Prince of Wales attended the special thanksgiving service at St Paul’s. In 1873 he was on duty when the Shah of Persia passed through London, and in 1874 when the Tsar of Russia drove through the City. He retired on medical grounds in 1917 and died at Atherstone in 1923.

Sold with two portrait photographs and a contemporary news cutting.