Three: P. J. Bryce, Royal Navy

South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (ALMEM(L) D152260V H.M.S. Bristol); General Service 19621 clasp, Gulf (ALMEM(L) D152260V R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (ALMEM(L) D152260V R.N.) good very fine (3) £700-900

H.M.S. Bristol was a Type 82 destroyer. Launched in 1969 and first commissioned in 1973; she was the only ‘Type 82’ to be built. Others were cancelled when the new generation of aircraft carriers (the CVA-01), which they were designed to escort, were cancelled. During the Falklands War she formed a component of the carrier escort group. After the war, she remained on station in the South Atlantic as flagship of the Royal Naval forces remaining there. She was decommissioned in 1991 and is used a Cadet Training ship, berthed at Whale Island, Portsmouth.