Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Constable Idi, Nyasaland Police Force
Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Colonial Police Forces L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (12 Cons------ Idi.) mounted as worn, heavy edge wear and bruising to second, LSGC sometime pierced with crude solder repair, fair to fine

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (10193. P. J. Starks, Sergt. R.M.A.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (Cpl. J. R. Dove S.A.G.A.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (2), G.V.R., 2nd issue (Par. Offr. Harry Emmens); G.VI.R., 1st issue (George A. Robinson) generally nearly very fine and better (6) £80-£100

Constable Idi was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1936 and is 1 of only two members of the Nyasaland Police to be awarded the 1935 Jubilee Medal in the Nyasaland Gazette of 6 May 1935; sold with copied research.

Percy James Starks was born on 12 October 1883 and attested for the Royal Marine Artillery on 18 August 1902. Awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with £20 gratuity on 26 December 1914, he later served from 24 March 1915 to 20 September 1917 aboard the battleship H.M.S. Zealandia; ordered to the Dardanelles at a time of severe storms, Zealandia suffered severe damage to her gun ports en route which effectively ended her campaign before it had begun. Sent for refit, she spent the remainder of the war on North Sea Patrols and as a gunnery training ship. Starks later transferred to H.M.S. Royal Sovereign and then H.M.S. Hood, before being shore demobilised in August 1923.