A post-war K.P.M. pair awarded to Assistant Chief Constable J. H. Harker, Lincolnshire Constabulary

King’s Police Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Distinguished Service (Asst. Ch. Const. John H. Harker, Lincolnshire Constab.), in its Royal Mint case of issue; Coronation 1937, in its (damaged) card box of issue, extremely fine (2) £350-400

K.P.M. London Gazette 10 June 1947.

John Harry Harker had earlier witnessed active service in the Great War, originally having entered the French theatre of war as a Corporal in the 1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, in March 1915. Subsequently commissioned in the 13th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, he ended the War as a Captain.