Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (2/Lt. C. Rainbow. Y. & L.) good very fine, scarce to unit £260-£300

Dix Noonan Webb, June 2014.

Christopher Rainbow was born at Sidcup, Kent, on 27 January 1938 and was educated at King’s School, Taunton, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the York and Lancaster Regiment on 1 June 1957, and served in the Arabian Peninsula from April 1958, in Nukeiras, Aden Town and Am Nuam. He was promoted Lieutenant on 25 January 1959. This was the last campaign medal awarded to the unit before it was disbanded on 7 December 1968.

Sold with copied research including numerous copied pages from The Tiger & Rose regimental journal.