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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 626

Four: Lance Corporal M. A. B. Hilson, Queen's Royal Lancers

Iraq 2003-10, no clasp (25194856 Tpr M A B Hilson QRL); Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (LCpl M A B Hilson QRL 25194856); Jubilee 2012; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, ISAF, nearly extremely fine (4)

Martin Andrew Brian Hilson, a native of Trent Vale, was born in 1989, enlisted in the Queen's Royal Lancers on 1 September 2004 and first saw active service with 'C' Squadron in Iraq in 2007. During that deployment he acted as a Troop Leader's Driver and Light Machine Gunner. It became clear the unit were destined for Afghanistan in 2010 and Hilson gave comment for This is Staffordshire in June 2010;

'I'm a bit nervous, but when we get out there our training will kick in. We are going there to make it a better place.'

Whilst on that tour he remained with 'C' and served as Second in Command of Jackals and as a gunner on the Scimitar - taking the senior Lance Corporal's role whilst within a fighting platoon.

Besides his service, Hilson represented his Squadron in Cross Country Running and found himself a most capable Nordic skier, representing the Regiment in Norway in the biathlon. Another trip was recalled in The Vedette;

'We met up with our Alpine Brethren who gave us a taste of their day (slackers, it's all downhill), which allowed LCpl Hilson to demonstrate his indiscriminate speed to Lt Purbrick (attempted sabotage?) and Tpr Law to leave multiple face imprints across the pistes of Les Contamines.'

Hilson was discharged on 6 July 2012; sold together with copied service record and numerous photographs of service besides research.

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£140