Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Police Constable A. H. Rickard, Metropolitan Police

Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. A. H. Rickard. M. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. A. H. Rickard. 3rd. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., A. H. Rickard.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Albert Henry Rickard was born in Datchet, Berkshire, in 1875. Appointed Metropolitan Police Constable, with Warrant No. 81468 on 27 July 1896, he was posted to M Division and was awarded Queen Victoria’s Jubilee (Police) Medal the following year. He transferred to the 3rd Division, Devonport Dockyard, on 12 October 1898, and was awarded King Edward VII’s Coronation (Police) Medal in 1902 and King George V’s Coronation (Police) Medal in 1911. He transferred to the 4th Division, Chatham (Sheerness Dockyard) on 11 March 1915, and resigned to pension on 31 July 1922. He died at Milton Regis on 8 June 1958, aged 83.

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