Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24343941 Pte D Swales QLR) mounted as worn, good very fine £50-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Arnold Jackson.

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Sold with a news cutting (post Gulf War 1990-91, when the pound was worth 9.8 French Francs and 2.9 German Marks!) which reports his death in a road accident, aged 37; ‘Mr Swales, whose twin sister Rose has a pub in Wigan, served for several years in the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment’.