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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 627

Four: Trooper A. M. Chester, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps

Iraq 2003-10, no clasp (25188908 Tpr A M Chester RTR); Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (Tpr A M Chester RTR 25188908); N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, ISAF; Jubilee 2012, good very fine (4)

Ashleigh Mark Chester enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in February 2005 and served with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment in Iraq in 2007 and in Afghanistan in 2010. During that second deployment Chester would have served with his unit on the deadly 'Peace Street', Route 611 in Helmand Province. The road was something quite remarkable and had come from a £22m donation from Gulf Arab Aid that would be built by VICC, Afghanistan's largest construction company. The issue was that the road ran through Taliban country and thus it required 1,500 mercenaries and a squadron of the 2nd Royal Tanks to help protect the construction workers and the eccentric Welsh engineer who had taken the project on. In spite of ambushes and numerous IED's that littered the trail, the project was completed. Chester took his discharge on 11 September 2012; sold together with copied Certificate of Service, named cloth insignia and a plethora of images from his time on campaign, including IED's.

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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£170