Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance Corporal J. P. Taylor, East and West Riding Regiment

N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, for Former Yugoslavia, no clasp, unnamed as issued; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Kosovo, unnamed as issued; Iraq 2003-11, 1 clasp, 19 Mar to 28 Apr 2003 (25001086 L Cpl J P Taylor E and WRR); Jubilee 2002, unnamed as issued, last in card box of issue, nearly extremely fine, the first believed unique to unit (4) £240-£280

The East and West Riding Regiment was formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of the 3rd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Volunteers), the 3rd Battalion, the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (Yorkshire Volunteers), and the King’s Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry), as per the Strategic Defence Review. A British Territorial Regiment, the short-lived East and West Riding Regiment was itself disbanded in 2006; a note accompanying the lot states ‘Iraq medal with clasp, unique to the Regiment’, whilst the dealer who originally sold the group adds: ‘is known to have served on two tours in Bosnia with NATO forces, and saw service in Iraq during Operation Telic 1 attached to the 3/4th Field Hospital in Basra, serving as a bodyguard to the hospital.’