A Carmarthenshire interest Second World War 'Home Defence' and Police Long service medal pair: Constable Thomas Glyndwyr Beynon, Carmarthenshire Constabulary

- Defence Medal
- Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. GVI issue (Const Thomas G. Beynon)

Medals Verification: Medal rolls for the awards of the Defence Medal and Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, are not in the public domain as of 2026. However the general award criteria for each medal as would have applied to Police Constable Thomas G. Beynon was:
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Code: 26172

A Scunthorpe/ Sleaford Lincolnshire / Humberside Detective Sergeants Royal Commemorative & Police Long Service Medal pair: Detective-Sergeant Francis 'Frank' Bradley, Humberside Police late Lincolnshire Constabulary

- Jubilee Medal 1977
- Police Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. EIIR issue (Sergt.Francis Bradley)

The Jubilee Medal retaining its original silvered mounting brooch, with hinged pin & clasp fittings, as-issued. The Police LSGC fitted with a white-metal mounting bar that retains its original hinged-pin & clasp fittings, and as-worn by the  recipient
 
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Code: 26171

Punjab Medal 1848-49. With 2 x clasps 'Goojerat' & 'Mooltan' (S. Shankland, 1st Bn 60th R.Rifles.)

Died-of-Wounds: No 2775 Private Samuel Shankland, 1st Battalion 60th Rifles is confirmed being 'Wounded-in-Action' on 23 June 1857 (London Gazette issue of refers) and subsequently 'Died of Wounds' 12 September 1857 (London Gazette

Witness to the Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. Meerut Cantonment: Private Shankland, a long serving professional soldier who had enlisted in the Britis...  read more

Code: 26170

Punjab Medal 1848-49. With 2 x clasps 'Chilianwala' & 'Goojerat' (Sowar Shaik Niraz Ahmud 9th I C)

The recipient Shaik Niraz Ahmud was an Indian soldier of the Mussalman faith who held the rank of 'Sowar' (Trooper) while serving with the 9th Irregular Cavalry of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Presidency Army

9th Regiment of Irregular Cavalry (Bengal): The regiment had it's origins in the 1st Shah Shuja's Cavalry Regiment, raised by the British as the cavalry compon...  read more

Code: 26169

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Gunner. Nichs. Jackson, 1st Compy. 4th Bn. Art.) 

Sold together with below original ephemera (a/f):

- War Office OHMS registered packet sending ‘Ind Medal’ to Mr Francis Jackson 89 Patrick Street, Cork

The envelope with post mark for London 8 January 1868, and reverse with post marks for Cork and date 10 January 1868 on front

Presumably Francis Jackson was the father of the late Nicholas Jackson, or...  read more

Code: 26168

China Medal 1857-60. With clasp 'Fatshan 1857'

Un-named as issued to Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel

Lightly toned with slightly loose claw

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Code: 26166

Afghanistan Medal 1878-80. No clasp (Offg. Supt. Mr. A. J. M. Reade. Tele. Dep.)

The recipient Alfred James Medley Read, a Gazetted Officer of the Indian Telegraph Department, was the maternal Grandson of Lieutenant-General William Macbean George Colebrooke C.B., Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, and a former Colonial Governor of; Bahamas; Antigua & Leeward Islands; New Brunswick (Canada) and Barbados & Windward Islands

Died in Service in Briti...  read more

Code: 26165

Afghanistan Medal 1878-80. No clasp (Pol. Locl. Lt. L. W. R. Browne. Trans. Dep.)

Medal officially named 'Browne' (sic) - the recipients surname was 'Brown'

The recipient Lindsay William Rodney Brown, an Officer of the Punjab Police, was a Great Grandson of Admiral of the White George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (1718 – 24 May 1792)

Died in Service in British India: Lindsay William Rodney Brown, Officiating Assistant District Superinten...  read more

Code: 26164

India General Service 1854-95. Silver issue with clasp 'Burma 1885-7 (12876. Sergt. W. Hurlock. R.E.) 

Died on active service Burma 1886: Sergeant Walter Hurlock is confirmed to have died on active service at, Kinghat, Upper Burma, on 16 July 1886 (Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette issue of 9 October 1886, refers)

In accordance with British and Indian Army protocols at the time, the body of Sergeant Walter Hurlock would have been laid to rest in Upper Burma, and would not have be...  read more

Code: 26161

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (107 Sapper Moung Hpo Gyan Burma Coy. Sappers & Miners)

By ethnicity the recipient Muong Hpo Gyan, was a native Burman of the Buddhist faith, who held the rank of 'Sapper' while serving with 'The Burma Company Sappers and Miners' a single company strength unit of the corps of Queens Own Madras Sappers and Miners of the Madras Presidency Army of the British Indian Army 

The Burma Sappers and Miners were raised in 1887, they were initia...  read more

Code: 26160