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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 11

A Great War 1917 ´Arras´ Casualty M.C., 1928 ´Tanganyika Territory´ K.P.M. Group of Six to Deputy Commissioner G.H. Kirkham, Tanganyika Police, Late Captain South African Infantry and South African Constabulary a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ´Capt. G.H. Kirkham. 1st. S.A.I. Arras´ b) King´s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st´ coinage head´ type (Major G.H. Kirkham, M.C., Depy. Commr. of Police. Tanganyika.), minor official correction to last three letters c) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between State and date clasps (360 Tpr: G.H. Kirkham. S.A.C.) d) 1914-15 Star (Lt. G.H. Kirkham. 4th S.A.M.R.) e) British War and Victory Medals, bi-lingual reverse, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Capt. G.H. Kirkham.), edge bruise to third, good very fine or better (6) Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 M.C. London Gazette 26.7.1917 Capt. George Herbert Kirkham, Infy. ´For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During the attack he was wounded in the head, but in spite of this he assisted to beat off a party of the enemy who were trying to enfilade them. He was again wounded, but did not leave until able to hand over to the supporting company.´ K.P.M. London Gazette 2.1.1928 Major George Herbert Kirkham, M.C., Deputy Commissioner of Police and Prisons, Tanganyika Territory. M.I.D. London Gazette 22.8.1918 Kirkham, Lt. G.H., M.C., 4th Regiment, South African Mounted Rifleman ´ For distinguished service in the Field in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15.´ Deputy Commissioner George Herbert Kingham, M.C., K.P.M., served during the Great War with the 1st South African Infantry, and awarded the M.C. for gallantry at Arras; relinquished his Commission with the rank of Captain, 29.5.1918, and Appointed to the Colonial Office as Deputy Commissioner of Police and Prisons, Tanganyika Territory.

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