Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Groups

Lot 4300    Session 13 (2.30pm Thur 25 Nov)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - British Groups

Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,000

TRIO: King's Police Medal (GVR) 1st type, with bar (for Gallantry); Jubilee Medal 1935; Coronation Medal 1937. Michael Francis Cleary Indian Police engraved on first medal and with correction to naming, second and third medals unnamed. Good very fine and rare.

K.P.M. L.G. 01Jan1930, pg 12, Indian Police Service; Gazette of India Extraordinary, 01Jan1930, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India 'For Valuable Services'. Bar to K.P.M. L.G. 08May1934 pg 2936, Superintendent of Police, Chittagong 'In recognition of his gallant conduct in frustrating an attempted outrage by terrorists on the 7th January last, by the foresight, courage and presence of mind which he displayed in apprehending two armed suspects'. Gazette of India Extraordinary, 08May1934, pg 133, 'On the 7th January, 1934 Mr Cleary, who had just witnessed a cricket match, was returning in his car to his bungalow when, on arriving at a point behind a tent where some 40 or 50 spectators and players were gathered, he noticed two suspicious youths on the road. He ordered his guard Constable and driver to search them but, not satisfied that the search was being conducted efficiently, he himself left the car and ordered his driver to strip the youths to the waist. One youth thereupon hurled a bomb which exploded at Mr Cleary's feet but did him no injury. He immediately tackled the youth and called upon his orderly to shoot. The orderly did so, but missed the youth and hit Mr Cleary's hand. He however continued to struggle on the ground until the Constable shot the youth dead. Meanwhile the other youth ran away but was pursued and eventually wounded and captured, a bomb was found in his possession. The foresight, courage and presence of mind displayed by Mr Cleary were the main factors in the frustration of an attempted outrage by terrorists which might otherwise have been disastrously successful' Together with seven photocopy pages of research including part service record.