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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 625

Three: Sergeant L. K. Carswell, Special Investigation Branch, Royal Military Police, who latterly served on covert intelligence missions in Afghanistan and appears to have participated in 'Black Ops'

Iraq 2003-10, no clasp (25148208 LCpl L K Carswell AGC(RMP)); Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (Sgt L K Carswell AGC(RMP) 25148208); N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, ISAF, good very fine (3)

Luke Kenneth Carswell enlisted in the Adjutant General's Corps (Royal Military Police) in February and served with 110 Provost Company in Iraq during Operation Telic 3 from October 2003. Carswell offers an account:

'This was a six month operational tour where I was attached to A Company, 1 RRW, based in Basra. Our primary role was to assist the Iraqi Police Service with their recruitment, training and ongoing development.

During this tour we were involved in numerous intelligence led operations against known insurgents and were involved in numerous contacts. We were fortunate as a unit not to sustain any fatalities during this tour.'

Transferred to the Special Investigation Branch, Carswell served on Operation Herrick 9 and offers a further account:

'I deployed as part of 62 Section. Upon arrival in theatre we were responsible for investigating all deaths of British Service personnel in theatre and compiling comprehensive reports to the Coroner and conducting all repatriations back to the UK> This always involved being forward in frontline patrol bases with infantry units so that we were able to respond to incidents immediately.

In January 2009 I was seconded to a specialist multi-national Counter Intelligence unit that reported directly to the commander of ISAF in theatre. Obviously due to the sensitive nature of those operations and the fact that many of them are still ongoing both in theatre and other parts of the world I am unable to provide details of specifics.

Generally I was involved in intelligence gathering using both overt and covert methods throughout Afghanistan.'

Carswell left the Army in late 2009; sold together with named both of issue for O.S.M., typed account of deployments, a number of photographs with the identity obscured of a number of fellow operators.

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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£170