Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A ‘Colonial Police’ B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Police Lieutenant T. S. Dyson, Royal Federation of Malaya Police, late Palestine Police

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Tom Stanley Dyson); General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (1011 B/Const. T. S. Dyson, Pal. Police); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Bar (199 European Sgt. Tom S. Dyson, Fed. Malaya Police) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (7) £450-500

B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1962. ‘Lately Police Lieutenant, Royal Federation of Malaya Police.’

Tom Stanley Dyson was born in Halifax, England, in September 1911. He enlisted for the Palestine Police on 14 October 1931, and was a Sergeant at the time of his retirement from the Palestine Police in 1948. Saw active service during the Second World War. Subsequently the recipient enlisted in the Federation of Malaya Police, in which force he served in the Johore Contingent where he latterly held the rank of Police Lieutenant. His further service bar to the CPLSM was published in the Federation of Malaya Government Gazette on 26 December 1957.

With copied research.