Orders, Decorations and Medals

The campaign pair awarded to Private William Nagle, 3 Australian Special Air Service Squadron and author of ‘The Odd Angry Shot’

Vietnam Service Medal (38359 W. L. Nagle); South Vietnam Campaign Medal, with clasp (38359 W. L. Nagle) good very 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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Bill Nagle was a private soldier with the SAS in Vietnam during 1966-67, and apparently served as a cook. His claim to fame is the little book he wrote called ‘The Odd Angry Shot’, a tough, biting comedy about an SAS troop in Vietnam, that won the National Book Council Award for Australian Literature when it was first released in 1975. It was later made into a successful movie by Tom Jeffrey and Sue Milliken. The lot is sold with a copy of the book and two group photographs.