Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Driver T. Marriott, Royal Army Service Corps, who served as an Air Despatcher in the Brunei and Borneo operations

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Brunei (T/23903090 Dvr. T. Marriott, R.A.S.C.); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (T/23903090 Dvr. T. Marriott, R.A.S.C.), minor official correction to surname on last, contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (2) £220-280

Terence Marriott was born in Manchester in 1941 and enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps in February 1962. Embarked for the Far East later that year, where he qualified for his Air Despatch Badge in May 1963, he was present in the Brunei and Borneo operations before returning to the U.K. in August 1965. He was discharged at his own request from 22 Air Despatch Squadron in the following year.

Sold with the recipient’s original Regular Army Certificate of Discharge, together with three British Army Public Relations photographs, two of them depicting Air Despatch crew with U.S.A.F. personnel, and the other an excellent image of Marriott, the reverse caption reading, ‘Driver Terry Marriott (21), R.A.S.C., who is serving with 3 Army Air Supply Organisation, was pictured cleaning his pistol at Brunei airport after completing a run on Operation “Food Drop” in which he and other members of his unit flew food in to a cut off Brunei village.’