Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant R. L. McDonald, Parachute Regiment

South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24576223 Pte., Para); U.N. Medal, UNFICYP ribbon, unnamed; General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24576223 Sgt., Para), mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £1600-1800

Ex D.N.W. 18 September 1998, lot 655.

Robert Lee McDonald was born on 20 June 1964 and enlisted into the Parachute Regiment at Harlow on 5 August 1980. During the Falklands War he served in the Recce Platoon, “C” Company, 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment. He later served in the U.S.A., March 1983 and March-April 1986; Belize, April-October 1984; Cyprus, June-November 1986; Denmark, May-June 1987; Kenya, October-December 1990, and Northern Ireland, June 1993-January 1995. He was discharged having an exemplary record of service on 24 August 1995. Sold with copied Certificate of Service and other research derived from Pegasus magazine - one article recalls that he was ‘captured’ while on manoeuvres against Danish forces. Suffering a blow to his ego, he was strapped to the bonnet of his captors landrover and paraded through the streets of a local town in a partially disrobed state!