Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The General Service Medal for Malaya awarded to Lieutenant P. C. d’A. Cleland, 3rd Hussars, who served as Troop Commander of ‘B’ Squadron, 22 S.A.S.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (2/Lt. P. C. d’A. Cleland. R.A.C.) mounted as worn, extremely fine £600-£800

Patrick Charles d’Aguilar Cleland was born in Hythe, Kent, on 14 March 1933 and was educated at Charterhouse. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Royal Armoured Corps on 10 May 1952 as a National Service officer, before exchanging to a Short Service commission the following year. Posted to the 3rd Hussars, he transferred to the S.A.S. on 25 October 1953, and served as a Troop Commander of ‘B’ Squadron, 22 S.A.S. under Captain A. F. Robertson in Singapore. He reverted to the 3rd Hussars in October 1955 for service with the British Army of the Rhine, before transferring to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers in the rank of Lieutenant on 4 June 1957. He relinquished his commission in March 1964. He later served as the manager of a tea estate in Kericho, Kenya, and died in Surrey on 13 November 1979.

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