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Auction: 18002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 184

Korea 1950-53 (22247489 Pte. R. B. Harding, R.M.P.), good very fine

A National Serviceman who joined the R.M.P. in late 1950 or early 1951.

The Royal Military Police - always known as “The Red Caps” - were granted their “Royal” prefix in 1946. In the Korean War the R.M.P. formed two Sections - 27 Brigade Provost Section and 28 Brigade Provost Section. Constantly employed on vital traffic duty in the Combat Zones, the Corps won two B.E.M.s and ten M.I.D.s. One of its ranks, Staff-Sergeant D. R. Kinnear, R.M.P., was killed on 5 August 1951.

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