Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Superintendent F. T. Tawira, Zimbabwe Republic Police, late British South Africa Police

Zimbabwe Independence Medal (01566); Zimbabwe Long & Exemplary Service Medal, with Bar (15707 Insp. F. T. Tawira); Zimbabwe Service Medal (15707 S.O. Tawira F.T.); Rhodesia General Service Medal (15707 Sgt. Tawira); Rhodesia Police L.S. & G.C. (15707 Sgt. Maj. F. T. Tawira), the Zimbabwe awards mounted as worn, generally good very fine or better (5) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Keith Holshausen Collection.

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Tawira, who was born in October 1939, a member of the Mulozi Tribe from Sinoia, joined the British South Africa Police in July 1960, his annual report in the following year noting that he ‘should make an excellent member of the Force’. He went on to serve in Southerton Police Station’s Investigations Section and also at St. Mary’s, where he was second in charge of the same department. Transferring to the Crime Prevention Unit in 1977, he subsequently moved up the ranks to be Officer in Charge Traffic Accidents Section in 1982. Tawira was promoted to Superintendent in 1988 and transferred to Police General Headquarters as Staff Officer Transport, from where he retired in October 1992, after a total of 32 years service. The recipient of a brace of ‘Good Work Performed’ endorsements on his service record, he was proficient in English, Shona, Nyanja, Chitumbuka, Yao, Sindebele and Nyangu; sold with an original, but slightly damaged photograph of the recipient, together with copied research, including the text of a farewell speech given on the occasion of his retirement, and a copy of his Certificate of Service, this latter confirming the above described Honours & Awards.