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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 162

Pair: Captain R. A. Hitchcock, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (2/Lt. R. A. Hitchcock. Foresters.); Abu Dhabi, Defence Force 1966-76 Medal, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn by Spink & Son, together with a further pair of full-size copy medals, also by Spink & Son, minor contact marks to first, about very fine (2)

Perhaps the best account of Robin Anthony Hitchcock's service can be found in his obituary, as published by the website of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association:

'Captain Robin Anthony Hitchcock died on 8th April 2022 in Ipswich Hospital aged 83. Robin Hitchcock was born on 25 May 1938 and after leaving school he joined the Hampshire Regiment and then was selected for officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned into The Sherwood Foresters in August 1958, joining the 1st Bn in Malaya as a Platoon Commander in the last years of the Malay Emergency. He held the GSM clasp Malaya and the Pingat Jasa Medal. He stayed with the battalion on its return to Crookham as an Anti-Tank Platoon Commander and then moved with the battalion on its posting to Holywood, Belfast. During this tour Robin transferred to the Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF) in Muscat, Oman serving as a temporary Major in Suwayhan, a desert outpost between Abu Dhabi and Al Ain. He returned to the 1st Bn in Colchester in 1965 as a Company 2i/c then, when the 1st Bn moved to Munster in Germany in their role as a Mechanised Infantry Battalion, he became Adjutant. The Battalion re-equipped with new AFV432 Mk II's as part of 6 Mechanised Brigade. During this period Robin was remembered as a colourful character and those who knew him well will have many tales to tell. On leaving the Army in 1968 prior to amalgamation he joined the Abu Dhabi Defence Force. After this he joined Brinkmann Tobacco, the German part of Rothmans Group in Hamburg before joining Carreras Rothmans in Bahrein in 1972. He then moved to Saudi Arabia as the Country Manager based in Jeddah, before working directly for Ali Zaid Al Quraishi, the Carreras Saudi Distributor. On retirement he moved to East Suffolk and lived in Iken and then Boyton where he was a British Legion representative doing much for the Suffolk Branch of the British Legion with General Sir Pat Howard-Dobson.'

It has been suggested that, given the recipient's interests in the Middle East, that he may have been in the employ of the Foreign Office at one stage or another.

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