FOR SALE & WANTED
FOR SALE
All prices are in Australian dollars.
Warrant Officer Class I 1970-1980 for the combat uniform. $18.00
M.B.E. to Josiah Zion Gumede, President of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979. $500.00
The London Gazette, 31 Dec 1963
M.B.E. Card with Gumede’s address
Photo of Josiah Gumede as President shown wearing the M.B.E. and the Grandmaster of the Legion of Merit (G.M.L.M.) which was worn only while holding the office of President.
Born at Bembezi in 1919, Mr Gumede was educated at David Livingstone Primary School in the Ntabazinduna TTL and later at the Lovedale Missionary Institution in the Cape Province where he qualified as a teacher. He taught at schools throughout this country becoming both a headmaster and general secretary of the Rhodesia Teachers' Association. At the end of 1959 he was appointed assistant information and education attaché in London by the Federal Government and later went to Nairobi as first secretary responsible for East and Central Africa.
In 1963, on the Federation's break-up, Mr Gumede returned to London as first secretary in the Rhodesian Government's Ministry of External Affairs and the following year he was awarded the MBE. He resigned from his position when UDI was declared, joining the British Ministry of Housing and Local Government, but returned to this country in 1967 to become a township superintendent in Bulawayo, which position he retained until his election as first President of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in May.
WANTED
I looking to purchase any of the following for my collection. Top prices will be paid.
PJI uniforms and berets
PJI brevets
Rhodesian Air Force Parachute Jump Instructor's (PJI) Brevet for Mess Dress.
Rhodesia & Nyasaland Army Service Corps Air Despatchers Wing, Queens Crown, Brass.
Rhodesia & Nyasaland Army Service Corps Air Despatchers Wing, Queens Crown.
Rhodesian Air Force Parachute Jump Instructor's (PJI) Brevet for Mess Dress. Bullion, early 60’s.
Any medals or documentation to PJI’s
