Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A 1939 King’s Police Medal group of five awarded to Assistant Chief Constable R. W. Brown, Somerset Constabulary

King’s Police Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Distinguished Service (Robert W. Brown. Supt. & Dep. Ch. Const. Somerset Constab.); Defence Medal (R. W. Brown) contemporarily engraved naming; Jubilee 1935 (R. W. Brown. Deputy Chief Constable of Somerset) contemporarily engraved naming; Coronation 1937 (R. W. Brown. Deputy Chief Constable of Somerset) contemporarily engraved naming; Coronation 1953 (R. W. Brown) contemporarily engraved naming, small edge bruising to first, otherwise good very fine (5) £400-£500

K.P.M. London Gazette 2 January 1939

Robert Willcox Brown was born in 1882 in Westbury, Somerset. He attested for the Grenadier Guards in 1900 at 17 years of age and served in London for three years having been judged too young to be sent to South Africa. He joined the Somerset Police in 1903 and rose to become Assistant Chief Constable in 1939, retiring five years later after forty one years service. He was elected Mayor of Weston-super-Mare in 1952 and retired from the Aldermanic Bench in 1961. He died in 1966 in Weston-super-Mare.

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