Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel D. A. Simpson, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Royal Army Service Corps

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Capt. D. A. Simpson, R.A.S.C.); Jubilee 1977; Nigeria, Independence Medal 1960; U.N. Medal, UNUC riband; U.N. Medal, UNFICYP riband, mounted court-style as worn, the first with minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine or better (5) £400-450

David Alexander Simpson, who was born in September 1932, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps in February 1953, direct from Sandhurst.

Advanced to Lieutenant in February 1955, he was specially employed by the Nigerian Military Forces from August 1959 until June 1963, and it was in the same period that he was ordered to the Belgian Congo - units of the Royal Nigerian Army and Ghanian Army being deployed there by the U.N. in 1960 at the time of the Congolese Army’s revolt.

Transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as a Captain in July 1965, Simpson was advanced to Major in February 1966 and was a Lieutenant-Colonel at the time of receiving his Jubilee Medal in 1977 (official roll refers).

Sold with the recipient’s original Ministry of Defence Office Pass, dated 18 March 1962, with portrait photograph, together with his U.N.U.C. (Congo) Pass and Driver’s Permit, and U.N.F.I.C.Y.P (Cyprus) Pass, the latter with portrait photograph and dated 30 July 1968; also sold with copied research.