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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 479

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., robed bust, 1 clasp, The Great War 1914-18 (Inspr. Boyd C. P. Hamilton), good very fine

Boyd Cullen Polley Hamilton was born in Boulogne in 1847 and was commissioned in the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1865. Following his retirement in 1887, he lived at Brandon House, Suffolk, where he served as a J.P. and as a magistrate at Brandon Police Station, later working at Paget Hall on Alcohol Licensing Sessions. During the Great War, he offered up his Maltings building for the local Volunteer Training Corps, attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was instrumental in organising the Corps; his wife was vice-chair of the Brandon Volunteer Aid Detachment and the Suffolk County Red Cross.

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