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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 484

Pair: Superintendent S. Y. Yeh, Shanghai Municipal Police (Specials)

Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal 1937, bronze, unnamed as issued; Shanghai Municipal Police (Specials) Long Service Medal (Superintendent S. Y. Yeh), nearly very fine and better, the second very rare (2)

The Shanghai Municipal Police (Specials) Long Service Medal was instituted in 1929, and just 52 medals and 8 clasps for additional service are recorded in the Shanghai Municipal Gazette. Production of the Medal was tendered out to Luang Seng of Shanghai in January 1941, and the medal was discontinued in 1942; owing to the low numbers that were issued, it is believed that no die was created, and instead the medals were cast as required.

S. Y. Yeh was awarded the Shanghai Municipal Police (Specials) Long Service Medal on 1 September 1942 (Shanghai Municipal Gazette 30 October 1942).

Following the uncontested invasion of Shanghai by the Japanese on 8 December 1941, life continued comparatively unchanged and Municipal Council staff were required to maintain the administration, under the Shanghai Provisional Council of 1941.

Under considerable pressure from the United States Administration, the foreign Extra Territorial Treaties, which had established the China Treaty ports in the 19th century (except that for Hong Kong), were abrogated on 11 January 1943, so that at the end of the Japanese War Shanghai and other occupied treaty ports would be returned to the Chinese Government (KMT) in Nanking. Given the harsh treatment of the local populations, the services of Yeh remain unknown and the survival of these awards given the turmoil are even more remarkable.

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Starting price
£1600