Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Staff Sergeant H. Kearns, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, late Coldstream Guards and Military Foot Police

Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, with bronze single star Second Award Bar (H Kearney) mounted court-style for display and mounted for display alongside cap badges for the Coldstream Guards and the Military Police; and a KC cap badge and collar badges for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, good very fine (2) £300-£400

Henry Kearney was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and attested for the Coldstream Guards on 23 December 1919. He transferred to the Military Foot Police on 31 May 1921, before taking his discharge on 26 December 1926. Emigrating to Canada, he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Calgary, Alberta, on 2 December 1927, and was promoted Corporal on 1 May 1932; Sergeant on 1 September 1940; and Staff Sergeant on 1 October 1949. He was stationed throughout Canada, from Whitehorse, Yukon, to Montreal, Quebec (and several places in between), and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 24 October 1949, and a Bronze Bar on 7 August 1956. He retired to pension on 1 December 1956, and died at Vancouver, British Columbia, on 18 March 1974.

Sold with copied service papers.