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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 665

Eight: F/R A. C. McLean, Rhodesian Police, late Lieutenant, Southern Rhodesia Reserves

Rhodesia, General Service Medal (4655J F/R A. C. McLean), mounted on its original pin; Rhodesia, Police Reserve Faithful Service (4655J F/R A. C. McLean); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Southern Rhodesia (CR663 T/Lieut Alastair C. McLean); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (Alastair C. McLean), British awards mounted as worn, the last pinned onto the mount, seventh with officially re-impressed naming, otherwise very fine (8)

Sold together with corresponding riband bars.

Alastair Charles McLean served during World War II as a member of the Southern Rhodesia Territorial Force (SRTF). The award of his Africa Star is noted in the Southern Rhodesia War Diary 1939-45, Vol, 2, page 413 (TNA WO333/2). He also qualified for the Territorial Efficiency Medal with bar Southern Rhodesia.

He enlisted in the BSAP Reserve (date unknown) and qualified for the award of the Special Constabulary Medal (date unknown). This is not unusual as it is known that there is a gap in the medal roll from 1960-1965 of members who were awarded this medal. Later he was awarded a RhGSM (Supplement to BSAP Reserve Force Orders, 15th Schedule, 8 May 1975, Page 9) and a Police Reserve Long Service Medal (The Rhodesia Government Gazette, 31 October 1975, Vol LIII, No 49, Page 1264); with thanks to Paul Brewster in the research of this biography.


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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£80