Orders, Decorations and Medals

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24787271 Pte S R McMullan, UDR) official corrections to surname and service number, mounted as worn, with (damaged) named card box of issue; with Ulster Defence Regiment 5th (County Londonderry) Battalion Commemorative Medal, gilt, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to 24787271 Pte McMullan SR’, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine and better (2) £100-140

Private Stephen Richard McMullan, 5th Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment, was present in the patrol when a mortar bomb killed Private Michael Boxall near Bellaghy, near Londonderry, on 6 November 1991.

With a hand written note signed by Mr Stephen McMullan:

‘It was in the town itself. We were driving slowly through the town, there was 3 Landrovers. I was in the first one, it was the last one that got hit by the bomb. All I heard was a loud bang and then saw smoke. Our driver stopped, I jumped out of the Landrover and ran back to see how bad they were hurt. It was a real mess. I saw my friend lying there was nothing more I could do to save my mate. He was called Michael Boxall .... It happened on the 19th May 1992 (sic) I still think that it could of easily have been me that day. ...’

With extracts from The Green Hackle, April 1996 re the dedication of a Memorial Window to the late Private Michael Boxall; another newspaper extract re a memorial to the U.D.R. and R.I.R. unveiled by the Duke of York, April 1995 and a copy of another note written by McMullan re the attack.

The commemorative medal was presented to all serving members of the 5th (County of Londonderry) Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment on the presentation of Colours in 1991.