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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 238

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. A. J. Huxtable.), good very fine

Arthur John Huxtable joined the British South Africa Police (Private No. A203) and served in East Africa from 17 August 1915, was advanced Corporal on 21 March 1916 and appointed Temporary Lieutenant on 16 February 1917. He went on sick leave from 21 August-4 September and was on recuperative leave until 21 November 1917. His Medals (1914-15 Star Trio) were issued in May 1922 and Huxtable went on to take up a long career in the Southern Rhodesia Civil Service. As Native Commissioner at Bulawayo, he put down the railway strike in October 1945 and was Commissioner of Labour from 1946-51, when he retired. He was drowned, together with his wife, in mysterious circumstances at the Wilderness, Cape on 10 March 1958; sold together with copied service records and extracts from the National Archives of Zimbabwe.

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