Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Five: Colour Sergeant M. J. Cole, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24692620 Pte M J Cole D and D); U.N. Medal, on UNPROFOR riband; Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (24692620 S SGT M J Cole D and D) laser engraved naming; Jubilee 2012, unnamed as issued; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994, E.II.R. (24692620 M J Cole D and D) mounted court-style as worn; together with the named card boxes of issue for the Jubilee Medal and Accumulated Service Campaign Service Medal, scratches to obverse field of first, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Matthew James Cole was born in Cheltenham on 28 May 1965 and attested for the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1984. He is recorded in numerous edition of the Regimental Newsletter as serving in Northern Ireland; in Bosnia between May and November 1995 when a Corporal with Fire Support Company; and in Iraq in 2005. He was advanced Sergeant in 2001, and Company Quartermaster Sergeant of ‘B’ Company in 2002. He was discharged in 2010.

Sold with various correspondence and further research.