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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 491

A 1948 B.E.M. awarded to Regimental Sergeant-Major D. Aveyard, Special Investigation Branch, Royal Military Police, who was the Senior SIB Detective during the Korean War

British Empire Medal, Military Division, G.VI.R. (863192 Sgt. Douglas Aveyard, C.R.M.P.), officially impressed naming upon a pre-prepared ground; 1939-45 Star Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (863192 W.O.Cl.1. D. D. Aveyard. R.M.P.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, good very fine (7)

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1948. The original Recommendation, for his work with 98 SIB as a Local Unpaid Sergeant, states:

'He has consistently carried out his duties [over the last 14 months] with untiring energy and devotion. When carrying out a task he frequently works day and night, without rest, until the work is completed. He has proved himself to possess great qualities of determination and judgement. The good services he has rendered are out of all proportion to what woud reasonably expected of a man of his rank.'

Douglas Aveyard - or 'Dave' to his friends and comrades - was the Regimental Sergeant-Major (Warrant Officer Class 1) and Senior Detective of the Special Investigation Branch in the Korean War. During that period, he worked tirelessly with Warrant Officer Williams, the pair being known as 'The Two Inseparables' and working out of Kure Docks. He also worked under Lieutenant McDonald as part of the Seoul Det. Aveyard broke his right leg in a car accident whilst with 70 Section SIB in Germany in 1955 and retired in March 1959, living in Hillingdon, Middlesex; sold together with copied research which includes a group photograph with the recipient identified.

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£420

Starting price
£320