Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War O.B.E., K.P.M. group of ten awarded to Deputy Commissioner F. W. Syer, Tripolitinia Police Force, late Nigeria Police and Palestine Police, and Second Lieutenant, Royal Air Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; King’s Police and Fire Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Distinguished Service (Frederick W. Syer, Asst. Inspr. General of Police, Palestine.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. W. Syer. R.A.F.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48 (Deputy Supt. F. W. Syer. Pal. Police.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these three all privately engraved ‘Frederick W. Syer Asst. Inspr. General of Police Palestine’; Colonial Police Forces Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Asst. Insp. Gen. Frederick W. Syer, Palestine Police Force) edge prepared prior to naming; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (10) £800-£1,000

O.B.E. London Gazette 10 June 1954: Frederick William Syer, Esq., Deputy Commissioner, Tripolitania Police Force.

K.P.F.S.M. London Gazette 8 June 1944: Frederick William Syer, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Palestine.

C.P.M. London Gazette 13 June 1946: Frederick William Syer, Assistant Inspector General, Palestine Police Force.

Frederick William Syer was born in Farnham, Surrey, on 20 August 1899 and was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant on probation in the Royal Flying Corps on 20 January 1918. He transferred in this rank to the Royal Air Force as a founder member on 1 April 1918 and served with 76 Squadron, before transferring to the Unemployed List on 15 September 1919. He subsequently joined the Colonial Police Force, and was awarded the 1937 Coronation Medal whilst serving with the Nigeria Police Force. Transferring to the Palestine Police Force on 8 September 1939 he rose through the ranks to the position of Assistant Inspector General, and for his services was awarded the King’s Police and Fire Service Medal. He married Doris Macqueen at St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, on 18 February 1948, before becoming Deputy Commissioner of the Tripolitania Police Force. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 Birthday Honours’ List, he died in Norfolk on 28 June 1971.

Sold with a family photograph album; and copied research.

For the recipient’s wife’s M.B.E., see Lot 208.

For the recipient’s related miniature awards, see Lot 571.