Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (2/Lt. C. Rainbow. Y. & L.) good very fine £250-300

Christopher Rainbow was born at Sidcup, Kent, on 27 January 1938. He was educated at King’s School, Taunton, and Wadham College, Oxford, and afterwards held a National Service Commission in the York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant, 1 June 1957, being promoted to Lieutenant on 25 January 1959. He served in the U.K; Tripoli (February 1958), and in the Arabian Peninsula from April 1958, in Nukeiras, Aden Town and Am Nuam. He left the army in September 1958. Sold with research including numerous copied pages from The Tiger & Rose regimental journal.