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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 512

(x) Three: Police Sergeant G. Perry, Metropolitan Police

Jubilee 1897 (P.C. G. Perry. G. Divn.); Coronation 1902 (P.S. G. Perry. K. Div.); Coronation 1911 (P.S. G. Perry.), very fine and better (3)

George Henry Perry was born on 16 July 1867 at Wiveliscombe, near Taunton, Somerset. A labourer by trade, he joined the Metropolitan Police on 30 October 1893 having previously served over 8 years with the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Army Reserve. Promoted to Sergeant and transferred to K (Stepney) Division on 14 April 1902, he became Acting Station Sergeant and later transferred to No. 1 Division at Woolwich Dockyard. He retired on 30 May 1920 and was placed on a pension of £195 13s. 6d. per annum, a portion of which was paid by the Admiralty, likely for Great War Service. He died on 30 June 1944; sold with extensive copied records supplied by the Metropolitan Police Museum.

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£80

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£50