Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare Posthumous K.P.M. awarded to Sowar Chandansing Briavansing, Palanpur Agency Police, Bombay, who was killed on duty on 18 August 1922

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (C. Briavansing, Sowar, Palanpur Agency Police) very fine £600-£800

K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1924: ‘His Majesty has also graciously consented to the King’s Police Medal being handed to the nearest relatives of the undermentioned Officers, who were killed on duty on the 18th August, 1922, and who would have received the decoration had they survived.’ Two awards, to Sowars Chandansing Briavansing and Issarsing Sawatsing, both of the Palanpur Agency Police, Bombay Police.