Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Lt. P. H. Mattock. K.D.G.) good very fine £120-£160

Peter Hedley Mattock was born in Farnham, Surrey, on 2 July 1924. He served as a Trooper from 15 October 1942 with the 58 training regiment, and was then posted to 161st Reconnaissance Regiment (which had converted from the 161st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (formerly 12th Battalion, Green Howards) in October 1943, and attached to the 55th (West Lancashire) Division from December 1943), and then to the 59th Reconnaissance Regiment (which was part of the 59th (Staffordshire) Division), and entered Normandy on 7 July 1944. He then served with the 49th Reconnaissance Regiment from 10 September 1944 and took part in Operation Astonia, which was an Allied attack on the German-held Channel port of Le Havre in France 10-12 September 1944. From 1 January 1946 he undertook training as a Cadet at the 148th Officer Cadet Training Unit, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King’s Dragoon Guards on the 10 December 1946. He was promoted Lieutenant on 2 July 1947, and Captain on 1 April 1949, before transferring to the Parachute Regiment on 1 March 1953. He died in Cambridge in 1982.