The campaign pair awarded to Private M. Holloway, 1 Australian Special Air Service Squadron

Vietnam Service Medal (218876 M. Holloway); South Vietnam Campaign Medal, with clasp (218876 M. Holloway) extremely fine (2)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, An Important Collection of Awards to the SAS and Special Forces.

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Malcolm Holloway served on a number of LRRP patrols with 1 Squadron as a combat signaller. These combined SAS/SVN patrols often spent up to 24 days in the bush. The lot is sold with a copy of his service record, his original discharge book AAF A16, more than 20 original photographs, many in South Vietnam, and a video tape of a TV show that features him. Mal Holloway, who is rumoured to have served as a mercenary in Burma, died in a car accident in 1994.