Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Superintendent Charles Pyne Luck, Indian Police

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, nearly extremely fine (3) £90-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Indian Police.

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Charles Pyne Luck was born in Ceylon, 1896. Listed as Officiating Superintendent of Police, Muzaffarnagur, 1921; Officiating Superintendent, Government Railway Police, Agra, 1925/26. During the last years of his life, he served as Superintendent of Police in the troubled Gorukhpur District. Leslie Robins, in his book, Policing the Raj, said of him, ‘My predecessor, Jimmy Luck, was a first class man but he was so ill, through overwork that in a few months he was dead.’ Luck died at Naini-Tal during 1944.

The medals, together with a cap badge and a photograph of the recipient, mounted in a modern 347 x 311mm. wooden, glass-fronted frame.

With some copied service details.