Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Civil C.B.E. group of five to Captain F. A. A. Menzler, Royal Engineers, late Royal Garrison Artillery

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, (no ribbon) in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, these four mounted court style for wear, nearly extremely fine (5) £300-400

C.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1949. ‘Chief Developement and Research Officer, London Transport Executive’.

Frederick August Andrew Menzler was born on 18 October 1888, the son of a naturalised Hessian father, and was educated at St. Marylebone Grammar School, Strand School and King’s College, London, gaining a B.Sc. Lond. and becoming an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries. He was employed as a Civil Servant with the Ecclesiastical Commission 1909-15. He then attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery at Dover on 25 November 1915, serving in France from July 1916 and attaining the rank of Sergeant on 5 October 1916, being attached to the 2nd Field Survey Company. He was discharged to a commision in the Royal Engineers on 16 March 1917 - being appointed a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Field Survey Company, R.E., employed in the Sound Ranging Section. Later promoted Lieutenant, he held the acting rank of Captain during June-October 1918, relinquishing his commission but retaining his rank of Lieutenant on 20 January 1919. Postwar, Menzler became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and served in the Government Actuary’s Department, 1919-29, and was also Secretary of the Permanent Consultative Committee on Official Statistics, 1922-28. Later positions included work with the Underground Group of Companies, 1929-33; service on the London Passenger Transport Board, 1933-47; London Transport Executive, 1948-54; being employed as an Actuary, 1930-39; Chief Financial Officer, 1939-45 and Chief Developement and Research Officer, 1945-54. Menzler was Chairman of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants, 1926-29; President of the Institute of Actuaries, 1950-52; Vice-President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1957-58 and was Guy Medallist in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society in 1951. A member of the Reform Club; he died on 1 November 1968. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers, biographical memoirs, death certificate, obituaries, will, etc.