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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 533

Three: Police Constable J. Thomason, Metropolitan Police, late Royal Navy
East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Gambia 1894 (J. Thomason, A.B., H.M.S. Raleigh); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police issue, bronze (P.C. J. Thomason, Thames Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police issue (P.C. J. Thomason), mounted as worn, generally good very fine (3)

Joseph Samuel Thomason was born in Towcester, Northamptonshire on 13 November 1873 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in December 1889. He subsequently served in H.M.S. Raleigh from October 1891 until February 1895, in which period he was advanced to Able Seaman and came ashore with the Naval Brigade in the Gambia operations of 1894 (Medal & clasp). Having then purchased his discharge ashore, Thomason joined the Metropolitan Police in December 1899. A member of Southwark Division, he finally retired to a pension in December 1924; sold with copied research.

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£600