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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 370

Pair: Private R. M. G. Pollard, Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry

General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, South Arabia, Northern Ireland (2399848227 Pte. R. M. G. Pollard. SCLI.); U.N. Cyprus, mounted court-style for display, retaining rod between clasps on the first, good very fine (2)

R. M. G. Pollard enlisted in the Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry around 1958 and would have been initially posted to West Germany, the Regiment at this time serving at Merser Barracks, Osnabruck. He would then have been posted to Gibraltar, before somewhat colder conditions during winter warfare training exercises in Norway and Canada undertaken by the Regiment in 1965-6. Their training location must be considered unfortunate, for Pollard would be faced with active service in the searing heat of Aden, April-October 1966. During the tour - focussed around Sheikh Othman - the Regiment lost two men killed in action. Having also served in Northern Ireland and Cyprus, Pollard was discharged on 31 October 1973; sold with cap and cloth badges, housed in a file of copied research.

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