Orders, Decorations and Medals

A rare Colonial Police long and meritorious group of four awarded to Sergeant Mabgwe-Mpofu, British South Africa Police

War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, with 2 Bars (9813 African 1st Cl. Sgt. Mabgwe, B.S.A. Police); Colonial Police Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (9813 African Stn. Sgt. Petros M.B. Mpofu, B.S.A. Police); St. John Service Medal (8796 Mabgwe, 9813, Rhodesia S.J.A.B., 1956), contact marks and occasional edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (4) £450-550

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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Mpofu, who changed his name from Mabgwe in 1961 (B.S.A.P. records refer), was a member of the Mzezuru Tribe who was born in October 1913. Enlisting in the British South Africa Police in September 1935, he was advanced to African Station Sergeant in August 1955 and retired in November 1965, largely having served in Bulawayo and Salisbury. Awarded his Colonial Police L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1954, he added a Bar to it in 1962 and a second Bar in 1965, and was awarded his Colonial Police Meritorious Service Medal in 1963; sold with research and verification.