Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (22308119 Tpr. P. Nightingale. S.A.S.) extremely fine £700-£900

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010.

Peter Nightingale was born in 1926 and enlisted with the Royal Engineers at Acton, London, on 15 February 1950. Serving with the Royal Engineers and Special Air Service, he served in Malaya (FARELF), May 1951-June 1953 and with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), August 1954-January 1955. His Certificate of Service shows that he passed his Certificate of Education 3rd Class in June 1952 when a member of 22 S.A.S. Returning to the U.K., he was transferred to the Army Reserve on 14 February 1955. As a Lance-Corporal he received his discharge from the Special Air Service Regiment on 14 February 1962, having served 5 years with the Colours and 7 years in the Reserve.

Sold with the recipient’s original Regular Army Certificate of Service; notice of discharge form the S.A.S. Regiment (Army Form D 401); and two photographic images of the recipient.