Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance Corporal D. Wilson, Coldstream Guards, was wounded by a roadside bomb whilst driving a Snatch Land Rover on an MNFI patrol in Basra City, 4 October 2005

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (25113490 Gdsm D Wilson Coldm Gds); Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (25113490 LCPL D Wilson Coldm Gds) mounted as originally worn, generally very fine or better (2) £400-£500

Dennis Wilson was born in Newcastle, and enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards in April 2000. He advanced to Lance Corporal and served for two years in Northern Ireland and did a tour of Iraq. Wilson was driving a Snatch Land Rover on an MNFI patrol in Basra City, 4 October 2005, when ‘his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Fragments of bomb penetrated the vehicle and hit the sole of his left foot, causing full thickness burns to the sole of his left foot, big toe and 2nd, 3rd and 4th toes.

He spent 6 days in Shaibah, Iraq and had 2 operations and was then casevaced back to Selly Oak Hospital, Burns Unit, Birmingham, here he underwent skin grafting’ (Medical Board Record refers).

Wilson subsequently worked with the Regimental police, and was discharged in April 2011.

Sold with several photographic images of recipient during deployment to Iraq, including annotated picture of the vehicle the recipient was wounded in by a roadside bomb whilst on patrol in Basra, 4 October 2005; photocopies of recipient’s Army Testimonial, Certificate of Service, Basic Sniper Course Certificate and Medical Board Record.