Perowne later served in Malta , Aden , Iraq , Barbados , Libya and Israel . He was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 . In 1938 Perowne worked for the BBC , preparing talks and features for transmission by the overseas Arabic service . In the same year he deposited a collection of potsherds with the British Museum , most of which are of Bronze Age type and probably derive from the ancient site of Subr . In 1939 he was appointed Public Information Officer in Aden , where he developed a passion for archaeology , and where he discovered the seventh century BC sites of Imadiya and Beihan . In 1941 Perowne was appointed Public Relations Officer to the British embassy in Baghdad . In 1944 he succeeded the scholar Vyvyan Holt as oriental counsellor
Coronation Medal
King George VI Coronation Medal
Stewart Perowne