Lot 4510

Description

Group of Six: King's Police Medal (GVR)(first type); India General Service Medal 1910-30, - clasp - Malabar 1921-22; France and Germany Star 1939-45; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration (EIIR), - clasp - Territorial. Clive G.Tottenham Acting Supt.Madras Pol on first medal, C.G.Tottenham A-D S.P.M.S. Police on second medal, 1954 on last medal. First, second and last medals engraved, third, fourth and fifth medals unnamed. Very fine and very rare.

Clive Gordon Tottenham. Acting District Superintendent of Police.

KPM: Gazette of India 02Jan1922.

'This Officer was left in charge of Calicut, during the Mapilla rebellion, at the time of the fighting on the 20th and the 21st August 1921 at Tirurangadi, when communications were cut and Calicut isolated. He acted promptly on his own initiative and did much to allay panic. His action in putting Ferok bridge in a state of defence and holding it with his reserve believed to have been instrumental in saving Calicut from a very critical position.'

Together with fourteen pages of research.