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№ 1490

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£520

Five: Private G. R. Kelly, Light Infantry

General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24878670 Pte, LI); U.N. Medal, UNPROFOR ribbon; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Former Yugoslavia, these unnamed; Iraq 2003, 1 clasp, 19 Mar to 28 Apr 2003 (24878670 Pte, LI); Jubilee 2002, unnamed, mounted court style as worn, good very fine and better (lot) £400-500

Graeme Robert Kelly served in the Light Infantry from 1988 to 1999, being recalled for service in Iraq during 2003 and 2006.

Together with a quantity of items, including: 3rd Battalion The Light Infantry Prize Medals (3), 50mm. silver base metal, reverse engraved, ‘BN SAAM 92 Champion Team Pte G. R. Kelly; BN SAAM 92 Section Match 1st Pte G. R. Kelly’, and ‘BN SAAM 92 Falling Plates 1st Pte G. R. Kelly’; another, The Light Infantry Prize Medal, 39mm., silver base metal, unnamed, with neck ribbon; other Prize medals (2) unnamed; dress miniature medals (2) - N.A.T.O. and Jubilee Medals; card boxes of issue for the Iraq and Jubilee Medals; U.N. cap badge; formal photograph of ‘Cassino Platoon’, Light Division Depot, Winchester, 9th October 1989 to 2nd March 1990’ - featuring Private Kelly; a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; U.N. Peace Force Identity Card - with photograph; U.N. Protection Force Driver’s Permit; an armband bearing a ‘Union Flag’ badge, ‘The Light Infantry’ shoulder badge and U.N. Badge; a letter giving notice of compulsory call-out of reserves, dated, 3 February 2006; Certificate of Mobilised Service, 27/02/2003 to 6/06/2003; Certificate of a Reservist’s Mobilised Service (3) 20/03/2006 to 02/05/2006; another, 11/09/2006 to 07/12/2006; Reserve Forces Release from full-time Service Certificates (2) dated 2 May 2006 and 7 December 2006; ‘The Band of the Light Division’ wooden wall plaque; the Army book:
The Fight for Iraq, January-June 2003, The British Army’s role in liberating a nation, a pictorial account, 152pp.; booklet: The Light Infantry Sounding of Retreat Bridgnorth, 26 June 1986. Together with a typed note from the recipient providing some service details.