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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 368

The 1966 B.E.M. awarded to Principal Office Assistant S. J. Matinga, Nyasaland Department of Immigration

British Empire Medal, Civil Division, E.II.R. (Sydney Jameson Matinga), officially impresssed naming on a pre-prepared ground, good very fine, in its Royal Mint case of issue

B.E.M.London Gazette 1 January 1960:

'Principal Office
Assistant, Junior Executive Division. Federal Department of Immigration, Nyasaland.'

Sydney Jameson Matinga appears to have been a close relative of Charles Jameson Matinga, M.B.E., a Member of the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Parliament for the Nyasaland South (Malawi) seat; sold with related newspaper clippings.


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Sold for
£140

Starting price
£50