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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 317

Pair: Gunner J. T. McKissick, Royal Artillery

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (227881103 Gnr. J. T. McKissick. R.A.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, first largely officially re-impressed, very fine

John Thomas McKissick was born on 11 November 1933 and enlisted at Dumbarton on 4 January 1952. He served with the specialist Able Sound Detachment, 15 Locating Battery, 16th Light Regiment, Royal Artillery in Korea. The unit specialised in going forward onto the Allied wires, in order to place microphones to detect enemy mortars and guns in order that our Gunners could triangulate the enemy positions. McKissick served as Driver to Captain M. Macfarlane, the Troop Commander and was with him when he was wounded by a mortar round; sold with copied service record and photographs.

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Sold for
£75