Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1385

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£360

Six: Lance-Corporal R. H. Ainslie, Royal Scots

Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (24849111 Pte., RS); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24849111 L. Cpl., RS); N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Kosovo, unnamed; Jubilee 2002, in named card box of issue; Saudi Arabia, Liberation of Kuwait 1991; Kuwait, Liberation of Kuwait 1991, 4th Grade Medal, extremely fine (9) £320-360

Sold with a mounted set of three full-size medals as the first three above; the ‘Gulf’ and ‘G.S.M.’ being named copies. Also with some background detail on the groups and a paper cutting from The Daily Record, 22 June 2004, which reports on the story that the entertainer and ‘Elvis’ impersonator, Rab. Ainslie, was attacked outside a bar. In it Ainslie states, ‘I served in the Gulf, Kosovo and Ireland and I can’t believe I have come home with injuries like these after a night at the local pub’.