The group of fourteen medals, awarded to Lt Col Frederick Ow...

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The group of fourteen medals, awarded to Lt Col Frederick Owen Lewis MBE CPM, comprising an MBE (with box), 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army bar, Burma Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal (privately named 341335 Capt F O Lewis RAC), a War Medal, privately named the same as the Defence Medal, with MID oakleaf, although no note of entitlement found), a General Service Medal 1918-62, with Burma 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48 and Malaya clasps (Capt F O Lewis RAC), Africa General Service Medal, with Kenya clasp (ASP F O Lewis), General Service Medal 1962-2007 with Borneo clasp (Supt F O Lewis Royal Malaysia Police although this naming looks unusual), Colonial Police Medal (Asst Supt Frederick O Lewis Fed Malay Police), Malaysia General Service Medal (F Lewis Asst Commissioner RMP), Oman, Sultanate Service Medal and a Vietnam Bronze Star mounted court style as worn, with a letter addressed to Lewis, 26 November 1968, informing him of his MBE, a Daily Telegraph (January 1st 1969) newspaper cutting highlighting his MBE, a letter from the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St James's Palace (9 October 1969) requesting his presence at an Investiture at Buckingham Palace, a photograph of Lewis, 20.5 x 14.5 cm framed, another, 12.8.5 cm, another, 5 x 3.5 cm (My Warrant Card Photo), both unframed, a Gerber presentation fighting knife, engraved Lt. Col. F. O. Lewis/Sabah Component, Royal Malaysia Police 1964-68, in a leather scabbard, a Vietnam Armed Forces Medal (Lt. Col. F. O. Lewis L.M.P. Saigon May 1966), a Bronze Star Medal box, a cast metal International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc Clark, Lt Col F. O. Lewis is a Member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, mounted on an oak board, 30 cm high, a pewter tankard To Fred Lewis from The Kenya Pistol Club, five silver plated tankards, Fred Lewis Kenya Game Department 30-3-66, To Mr F O Lewis (DSP) from Officers, Sabah Component, RMPF, F.O.L. 1956-1982, another, and the last with Kenya Police crest, a General Service Medal 1918-62, with Malaya clasp (G/1105 DSP F O Lewis FMP, three mounted medals, comprising two Vietnam medals and an Oman medal (the Star numbered 70349), a Russian Soviet Medal CCCP, engraved Capt F O Lewis 12th RTR Moscow 1941 2537562, a Parabellum Pistol Club medallion, Col F O Lewis CPM PB CG Life Member PPC, another (CPM - MBE), other medallions awarded to F O Lewis, including (Major) 2nd Place Kenya Pistol Club Combat Shoot, 7 November 1965, 2nd C S Kenya Pistol Club 12 Dec 1965, five medallions with ribbons, PPC Championships 20 Sept 1987, another, 1st Advancing Man Bisley 1984, 2nd Long Range Pistol Bisley 1984, another 1986, four smaller medallions with ribbons, 1st Advancing Man Bisley 1986, British Pistol Championships Bisley 1987 and two others, other National Rifle Association medallions, buttons, and Oman Gendarmerie plaque, assorted mounted medal ribbons, and a large group of other items including buttons, badges, and related items, with a card from fellow staff at IBM wishing him best wishes on his retirement. A photograph album, of monochrome images by Lido Studio Seremban, including Operational use helicopter course no 4 Dusun Tua Selangor December 1953, Federal Field Force Training Centre, Conversion Course Instructors, 1953, and Permanent Staff Field Force Training Centre Dusun Tua Sel Dec 1953, two Masonic certificates, Bisley Camp 1978 and Alverstoke, Gosport, 1982, and other Masonic regalia

Frederick Owen Lewis was born at Croydon on 22 January 1923, and educated at Gunnersbury Catholic Grammar School. He entered the ranks of the Royal Tank Regiment in 1941, and ended up working as a Security Manager for IBM International, working from Hursley Park Winchester, retiring in 1988, he died in 1995, when the collection passed to his niece and more latterly her late husband

To say that Frederick Owen Lewis led an interesting life is probably an understatement. He recorded a series of three audio tapes with the Imperial War Museum (reference 12021) where he talks of his time serving with the Federation of Malaya Police 1949-1955.