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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 506

Five: Chief Inspector (Reserve) R. L. Cridlan Kenya Police, late Captain, African Colonial Forces, a Banker in Nairobi who served with the Kenya Police during the difficult years of the Mau Mau

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (P.2030 C.I. (R). R. L. Cridlan.), good very fine (5)

Richard Lionel Cridlan was born at Pinner, Middlesex on 6 June 1912 and emigrated to Kenya to work at Barclay's Bank, Nairobi. Joining the Kenya Regiment on 1 April 1940 with the service number KR 921 he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 13 November 1941 in the African Colonial Forces.

Cridlan was appointed Deputy to the Adjutant General to the Forces on 24 June 1945 in the rank of Temporary Captain. He relinquished his commission on 11 July 1946 with the Honorary rank of Captain but was soon back in action as the Mau Mau revolt began.

Appointed District Commandant in the Kenya Police Reserves on 8 September 1953 he served throughout the Crisis. The death of his second wife Dorothea in Malindi on 11 December 1971 saw him still living in Nairobi. However he did retire to Britain, dying at Henley-on-Thames on 16 May 1984; sold together with copied research.

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£110