Pair: Guardsman D. Wand, Scots Guards

General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24433111 Gdsm, SG); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24433111 Gdsm., SG) mounted court style as worn, good very fine and better (2) £900-1000

Daniel Wand was born on 14 June 1960. He enlisted overseas into the Scots Guards on 20 August 1976. He served throughout his military service as a flute player in the Corps of Drums. He served with the B.A.O.R., March 1978-March 1979; Northern Ireland, May-October 1980; Kenya, February-April 1981; Falkland Islands, May-August 1982; Cyprus, January 1984-February 1986 and U.S.A., March-April 1987. He was discharged as an Acting Lance Corporal, having given notice, on 15 June 1987. An application to re-enlist in the Regular Army was turned down in August 1988.

With Regular Army Certificate of Service; Certificate of Qualifications; Army Job Description Forms (3); Certificate stating, ‘Drummer D. Wand served with the Second Battalion Scots Guards during the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain Falkland Islands 14 June 1982’; Territorial Army and Reservist Instruction Book; letters (2); Falkland Island ‘Shipwrecks’ postage stamps first day cover, dated 15 May 1982, and newspaper cutting featuring the misbehaviour of a former soldier ‘Stanley Wand’ during the demonstration of the Coalition Against the Criminal Justice Bill. Papers all contained in plastic Army folder. With copied group photograph featuring Guardsman Wand.