Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: British Constable R. A. Sizeland, Palestine Police, later Metropolitan Police

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (913 B/Const. R. A. Sizeland. Pal. Police.); together with the recipient’s Royal Masonic Hospital Jewel 1930, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Bro. R. A. Sizeland No. 4611’, light contact marks, very fine (4) £80-£120

Richard Alfred Sizeland was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 9 October 1913, and was employed during the 1930s as a Footman for a number of employers including Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt., the then Labour M.P., and later leader of the British Union of Fascists (on his application form to join the Metropolitan Police, Sizeland gives his reason for leaving Mosley’s employ as ‘Place unsuitable’). He joined the Metropolitan Police in September 1939, and from May 1940 served in 109 Provost Company, Corps of Military Police, Home Forces. He attested for the Palestine Police on 7 August 1942, and served in Palestine from 24 November 1942, before being discharged on 2 November 1946. He subsequently re-joined the Metropolitan Police.

Sold with a large quantity of copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.