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Auction: 24003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 228

(x) An interesting K.P.M. awarded to Deputy Superintendent J. H. Hammond, Indian Police, who came under attack during Gandhi's 'Quit India' campaign in Bombay in August 1942

King's Police Medal, G.VI.R., 1st Type for Distinguished Service (J. H. Hammond Dy. Supdt. Of Police Bombay.), good very fine

K.P.M. London Gazette 6 June 1941.

James Henry Hammond was a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Bombay during the Second World War, his award of Hammond's K.P.M. was announced on 11 June 1941.

Accompanying copied newspaper reports refer to him coming under attack during riots in Bombay on the second day of Gandhi's 'Quit India' campaign in August 1942, when his car was 'stoned and considerably damaged' on the streets of Bombay. A similar fate befell an Associated Press correspondent, who described how 'a ring of rowdies' hurled all manner of projectiles at his car. Both men appear to have escaped uninjured, but not so 10 of the rioters, who were shot dead. A further 150 of their number were arrested by the local Police and Military.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240