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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 676

Three: African Sergeant Class 1 Gasa, British South Africa Police

War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., with Second Award Bar (9875 African Sgt. Cl. 1 Gasa. B.S.A. Police); Service Medal of the Order of St John (9875 Pte. Gasa (7422)), mounted as worn, very fine (3)

Jacob Gasa is likely to have enlisted in the BSAP shortly before the Second World War, although the exact dates are not known. He was awarded his Colonial Police Long Service Medal in The Southern Rhodesia Government Gazette, 4 March 1955, Vol XXXIII, No 10, Page 138 and a Second Award Bar in The Southern Rhodesia Government Gazette, 6 Apr 1962, Vol XL, No 15, Page 392.

He served in the BSAP African Ambulance Division and as a result was awarded the Service Medal of the Order of St. John in 1952. This is mentioned in a letter from the Commandery in South Africa (3/SML/55, dated 22 February 1955).

With thanks to Paul Brewster for his research to provide the biography.


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