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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 529

The mounted group of thirteen miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel F. O. Lewis, M.B.E., C.P.M. who served with the Royal Tank Regiment, Parachute Regiment, appears to have been with Force 136 in the Far East, Malaya Police, Kenya Police and the Sultan of Oman's Forces

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member's (M.B.E.) Badge; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army, applied upside down; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, S. E. Asia 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula; Colonial Police Medal, G.VI.R.; Malaysia, Service Medal; Oman, Sultanate, Service Medal, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine, together with American Silver Star miniature award (14)

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1969 (Acting Superintendent of Police, Malaysia).

C.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1953 (Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force).

Frederick Owen Lewis was born at Croydon on 22 January 1923 and was educated at Gunnersbury Catholic Grammar School. He entered the ranks of the 12th Royal Tank Regiment in July 1941 and notes which accompany the Lot suggest he was thence commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in November 1943, serving with Force 136 in the Far East with General Gracey in French Indo-China. Service in Palestine with the 6th Airborne Division followed before joining the Malaya Police on anti-terrorism operations. A spell in Kenya during the Mau-Mau followed before a return to Malaya, perhaps also attached to the Australian Forces in Vietnam (Malaysian Service Medal). Joining the Sultan of Oman's Forces, Lewis worked as security manager for IBM International, working from Hursley Park, Winchester in his latter years. He retired in February 1988 and died in 1995; sold together with Bisley silver Medal, the reverse engraved 'Lt. Col. F. O. Lewis 2nd Police Pistol Bisley 1986' and National Rifle Association bronze Medal, the reverse engraved 'Lt. Col. F. Lewis. P.P.C. 1971', besides riband bars, an envelope to the recipient in Oman in 1969 from Hayward and Hall, Piccadilly Arcade (forwarding riband) and copied research and notes.

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