Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (22563716 S.Sgt. J. Gill. Lan. R. (PWV).) extremely fine, unique to unit £80-£100

John Gill is recorded in the Nominal Roll of Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of the 1st Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment, dated 31 December 1953, as serving as a Sergeant in possession of a 2nd Class certificate of education. He is further noted, ‘A/Tk., School of Infantry’, the Regimental Chronicle noting his presence on two trips to the Shandur Field Firing Ranges:
‘The first shoot was very good... The highlight of the second shoot was Sergeant Gill’s cooking.’

Suitably fed, Gill and the men of the anti-tank Platoon then spent the following eight days at Ain Sokhna in Egypt. The Regimental Chronicle added, ‘We are also very pleased to welcome Sergt. Gill (”A” Company) to the platoon. He has just left for England to join a course at Netheravon on the 120 m.m.’

Advanced Staff Sergeant on 26 February 1962, the Seniority Roll and Location List notes secondment to the Brunei Malaya Regiment around 1964, the only soldier from the Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) to be transferred to this unit at this time and thus eligible for the GSM, clasp Borneo.