Orders, Decorations and Medals

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (2/Lt. D. H. Fielding, R. Hamps.) extremely fine £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Schweder Collection of Medals for Campaigns in Malaysia.

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Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant (National Service) on 23 April 1955. Promoted a Lieutenant in the T.A. on 28 December 1956; retired in 1960.

‘The 1st Royal Hampshires arrived in Malaya in Jan. 1954 and took over an area in Western Pahang; at the end of the year they moved to a swampy area and took part in the seven month long Operation Nassau in which 26 terrorists were killed. Later in 1955 they moved to the Ulu Laugat area and achieved a major success on 10 December in which, unusually, a whole company was employed; an ambush wiped out a terrorist camp and eleven kills were recorded. The unit left Malaya in August 1956’.