Alan Saunders, CMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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, OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (1886–1964) was Inspector-General of Police

Police

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 in Palestine

Palestine

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between November 1937 and August 1943.

Saunders was educated at Christ’s Hospital. His career was as follows: served Indian Police, 1908–14; war service,
1914-20, in France, Flanders and Palestine; District Commandant, Jerusalem, Palestine
Police, 1920–26; Deputy Inspector-General, 1926–35; OBE 1932; Inspector-General,
Nigeria Police, 1936–37; Inspector-General of Police and Prisons, Palestine, 1937;
Member, Palestine Advisory Council, 1937–43; CMG 1941; retired from Colonial Service,
1944; Chief Police Adviser, Allied Military HQ (Greece), 1944; Director, Middle East
Censorship, 1945–46; Commissioner Police, Tripolitania, 1946-52. Married, 1920, Eva
Strickland (d.1952): 1 son.