Lot 3217

Description

Group of Seven: British Empire Medal (EIIR)(Civil); General Service Medal 1937-48 - three bars - Palestine; Palestine 1945-48; Malaya; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; British War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (EIIR) with bar for twenty years service. Tom Stanley Dyson on first medal, 1011 B/Const. T.S. Dyson Pal.Police on second medal, 199 European Sgt. Tom Dyson Fed Malaya Police on seventh medal. First, second and seventh medals impressed, all other medals unnamed. Very fine and a rare group.

Tom Stanley Dyson. Joined Palestine Police 14Oct1931, stationed in Johore, Malaya, Long Service bar: Malaya Govt Gazette 26Dec1957, British Empire Medal awarded Jun1962. Together with Long Range Desert Group hat badge and research, photocopies of Malay Police Magazine, June 1962, page 59, Malaya Government Gazette, 1956, pages 840, 841.