Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Sergeant Mutandwa, Rhodesian Police, late British South Africa Police

Rhodesia General Service Medal (11528 Sgt.); Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. (11528 Sgt.), edge stamped ‘(R.)’ for replacement; War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (11528 African Const., B.S.A. Police); St. John Service Medal, unnamed, ‘Police’ on the fourth privately engraved, generally good very fine (5) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Series of Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. Awards to the British South Africa Police.

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Mutandwa was born at Gutu in Southern Rhodesia in June 1924 and, having worked at the Iscor Steel Works on the outskirts of Pretoria, returned home and enlisted in British South Africa Police in June 1945. Thereafter, in a long career spanning nearly 30 years, he held assorted appointments in Salisbury, Gwelo, Selukwe and Bulawayo, among them Court Orderly and Interpreter, Licence Inspector and “Sudden Death Dockets” Compiler. Awarded the St. John Service Medal in 1960 and his Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. in January 1972, he retired in December of the following and became a lay preacher in the Dutch Reform Church; sold with three original St. John Ambulance certificates, dated March 1949, December 1958 and October 1960, together with his B.S.A.P. certificate of service, dated December 1973, these in generally worn / damaged condition.