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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 860

(x) A most unusual 'double-issue' campaign pair awarded to Captain R. W. Odlin, Royal New Zealand Army, late Guardsman, Scots Guards, Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, and Captain, General List

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2695154 Gdsmn. R. Odlin. S. Gds.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Captain R. W. Odlin Gen List.), very fine (2)

Richard Walker Odlin was born on 11 September 1916 at Liverpool, enlisting in the Scots Guards in April 1935. Having served with the Guards in Palestine, Odlin was transferred to the Royal Military Police in January 1940, before joining the Royal Air Force as a Flight Sergeant in June 1941. Commissioned Pilot Officer (General Duties Branch) on 9 April 1944, he was advanced Flying Officer, 9 October 1944 and Flight Lieutenant, 1 November 1947. Having resigned his commission in the Royal Air Force, he was commissioned Lieutenant, General List on 20 February 1949, seeing further active service in Malaya. Having been made a New Zealand citizen in 1952, it would appear likely he was seconded to the United Nations Observer Group in Kashmir, for the the ceasefire between Pakistan and India. Odlin recorded his last residence as Pakistan during June 1953 whilst returning from Wellington to London and retired in 1962. Appointed Captain in the 7th Battalion, Zambia Rifles, Odlin died in an accident on 31 January 1967 at Lusaka; sold with copied research.

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Sale 19001 Notices
The recipient also confirmed as a Pilot in the Royal Air Force.