Kings Police Medal for Distinguished Service GVIR (ROBERT W. BROWN. SUPT. & DEP. CH. CONST. SOMERSET CONSTAB.); Defence Medal privately named (R.W. BROWN.); 1935 Jubilee Medal privately named (R.W. Brown, Deputy Chief Contable of Somerset); 1937 Coronation Medal privately named (R.W. Brown, Deputy Chief Contable of Somerset) 1953 Coronation Medal - unnamed as awarded.
Robert Wilcox Brown was born in Bristol in 1882. Having joined the Grenadier Guards in 1901 he was part of the detachment which brought Queen Victoria's body from the Isle of Wight to the mainland for Her Majesty's funeral. He was also part of the honour guard to the Queen in St George's Chapel, Windsor after the funeral service on 2 February 1901 and internment at Frogmore Mausoleum on the 4th February 1901. He joined the Somerset Constabulary on 3 June 1903 serving variously at Weston-super-Mare and other stations dotted around Somerset.
He was awarded the 1935 Jubilee Medal as the Deputy Chief Constable of Somerset and with the dawn of 1939 was included in the New Years Honours List as a recipient of the Kings Police Medal for Distinguished Service. At the time of the award Brown held the substantive rank of Superintendent. He was presented with his Kings Police Medal by His Majesty at Buckingham Palace.
In May 1939 he was appointed to the post of Assistant Chief Constable. He announced his retirement in August 1944 and shortly afterwards was co-opted to the Borough Council in 1945 as a representative of the West Ward. He was elected an Alderman in 1949 and in 1952 was elected Mayor of Weston-super-Mare.
In 1953 he received the Coronation Medal. He died in Weston-super-Mare in 1966.
Sold with a comprehensive dossier of research which includes several of Brown in his Mayoral Robes.
All medals are in good condition unless otherwise stated.
