Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer F. S. H. Palmer, Royal Navy

British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (C.E.R.A. Frederick S. H. Palmer. P/MX.49516.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (MX.49516. F. S. H. Palmer. C.E.R.A. H.M.S. Challenger.) contact marks and minor edge bruising, good very fine (7) £400-£500

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 June 1954.

Frederick Sidney Harold Palmer was born in Portsmouth on 18 November 1917, and joined the Royal Navy as a Engine Room Artificer Apprentice on 2 January 1933. He served during the Second World War as an Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer in the Mediterranean in H.M.S. Cleveland, and in Home Waters in H.M.S. Mendip, taking part, whilst serving in the latter, in the Normandy landings. Post-War he served in H.M.S. Challenger from 2 June 1949, and remained in her throughout her World-wide Oceanographic cruise from May 1950 to October 1952, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 17 December 1950. It was probably for managing to keep Challenger’s ageing machinery serviceable during her Oceanographic cruise that he was awarded the British Empire Medal. After a spell in Singapore, where it appears that he was someway involved with the Royal Malaysian Navy, most likely in a training role, he returned home in February 1957, and was discharged to pension on 17 November of that year. He died in Thanet, Kent, in May 1994.

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