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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 409

The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals attributed to Commissioner J. G. Leslie, British Somaliland Police

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Member's (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver; The Most Venerable Order of St John, silvered metal and enamel; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service, G.VI.R., on Meritorious Service riband; Service Medal of the Order of St John, all mounted as worn, very fine (10)

[M.B.E.] London Gazette 1 January 1914.

[C.P.M.] London Gazette 14 June 1945.

John Grant Leslie was born in 1901 and he lived in Kenya, Somaliland before he enlisted into the Police. He successfully rose through the ranks and upon the outbreak of the Second World War, he was serving as an Assistant Superintendent in the Kenyan Police. By the end of the war, he was a Major and Commissioner of the British Somaliland Police.

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Estimate
£60 to £80

Starting price
£50