Description
Efficiency Medal, GVI, 1st Issue, bar Southern Rhodesia, CR2648 T/Sgt Owen George Tristam Williams.
An extremely rare and short lived issue.
Provenance: previously part of the John Tamplin Collection, DNW June 2009.
Owen George Tristam Williams was a Local Rhodesian, born during 1919 in Penhalonga, Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
He was the son of Albert John James Williams and Mabel Minnie Williams.
He married his wife Dorothy Elanore on 31st March 1949 in Umtali.
As a civilian he worked as a Printer, he lived in Chadcombe, Salisbury and died at the age of 54 on 20th August 1873 at the Government Printing Depot in Salisbury.
He was found at the Government Printing Depot on Gordon Avenue, having seemingly committed suicide, the medical report stating “Strangulation by Hanging”.
He died during a strenuous time for Europeans in Rhodesia, the “Bush War” had been ongoing for 10 years, it would only be 6 more years until Mugabe assumed power and the country became Zimbabwe.
He left behind his wife, and 2 children, Amanda Janes, Born 1959, and Trevor John, born 1960.
His son Trevor was drafted as he turned 18, attested for service with the B.S.A. Police on 24th October 1978, earning the Rhodesia General Service Medal, for service as a Police Officer in Midlands Province.
Awarded in the Supplement to BSAP Force Orders, 110th Schedule, 31st May 1979.
