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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 310

The well-documented C.P.M. awarded to Superintendent A. W. Milton, Federation of Malaya Police

Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service, G.VI.R. (Supt. Arthur W. Milton Fed. Malaya Police), very fine

C.P.M. London Gazette 30 December 1952.

Arthur William Milton was born on the 22 February 1905 in Paddington, London. His father, Arthur Edward Milton, died when Milton was only five, from a sudden illness, aged 33. He was greatly respected according to his obituary in the Paddington Times, 14 October 1910.

Milton's mother, Amy Smith, worked as a dressmaker to support her son, but died soon afterwards in 1915. The extended Milton family-owned Messrs M. and W. Milton at 6 Park Lane, Piccadilly, where they rented high-end horses and carriages to the wealthy and had a Royal Warrant from Edward VII. From the time of his mother's death to the outbreak of the Second World War, he worked for the company. In January 1933, he married Ada Ling of Durham in Paddington.

On the 3 August 1940, Milton was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Army Service Corps and went out to war with his wife Ada alongside him. Photograph albums included in the lot indicate that he was in Palestine, Egypt and South Africa during his service.

After the war, he moved to Malaysia and joined the Federation of Malaya Police Force, quickly rising to the rank of Superintendent by his award of the Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service. This was gazetted in the New Year Honours of 1952. On the 9 January 1952, he died at home in Kuala Lumpur, aged 46. Ada returned to Britain from Hong Kong on 16 February 1953, later dying in Durham in 1979.

Sold together with an extensive archive including;

i)
Copied research.

ii)
Two Royal Army Service Corps photograph albums with images from Middle East and Africa.

iii)
Personal photographs of Milton and his wife.

iv)
Three photograph frames; Milton receiving CPM, Milton and Ada, Milton's Grave.

v)
Two passports, one each for Milton and his wife.

vi)
Royal Army Service Corps portfolio case.

vii)
Small desk ornament barrel with letters 'AM'.

viii)
Compass in leather case.

ix)
Five copies of the Army Training Memorandum.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240