Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Staff Sergeant W. R. Lomax, Royal Logistics Corps, late 13/18th Hussars

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24656234 Cpl W R Lomax RAOC); U.N. Cyprus; NATO Medal 1994, Former Yugoslavia; Iraq 2003, clasp, 19 Mar to 28 Apr 2003 (24656234 SSGT W R Lomax RLC); Jubilee 2002; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (24656234 SSGT W R Lomax RLC) court mounted as worn, extremely fine £300-400

Sold with copied Army Certificate of Service, two photographs and five Army Certificates of Qualification from Army School of Ammunition. His Testimonial, dated 6 July 2005, states:

‘Wayne Lomax joined the British Army in August 1984 as a Junior Leader in the Royal Armoured Corps. On completion of his junior service he graduated to his adult service parent regiment, the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO). His initial posting took him to the British Army of the Rhine in Germany, where he was employed as a reconnaissance crewman working on Scimitar light tanks primarily tasked with providing early warning intelligence in the event of war. One year after joining his regiment Wayne and his unit returned to Tidworth in Hampshire for only a brief stay, as within two months he joined the United Nations in Cyprus providing armoured vehicle support to the peace keeping operations on the Cyprus Green Line.

In 1988 Wayne was presented to Princess Diana of Wales as the Champion Trooper of his regiment finishing eighth out of over five hundred men in a military skills competition. Following this early success he was selected to be a permanent staff instructor serving with the Territorial Army in York.

In 1990 Wayne applied to be transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as an Ammunition Technician, and he passed a trade training course in September 1991. Initially he worked within an ammunition process building, inspecting, repairing and where necessary disposing of the full range of the British Army’s ammunition. Throughout his time as an Ammunition Technician Wayne rose through the non-commissioned ranks reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant in June 1998. His career as an Ammunition Technician moved into the terrorist bomb disposal area in 1996, where he was employed providing cover for the north west of England and later British Army units in Germany. In addition to bomb disposal duties, Wayne also showed a great aptitude for ammunition accident investigation techniques in all theatres of operation that he was employed.

Throughout his career of just under twenty-one years Wayne has been employed in the following operational theatres: Germany, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the United Kingdom (terrorist bomb disposal duties) and Iraq. During this period he was in command of a bomb disposal team and at all times he remained calm at what often proved to be stressful times.

Throughout his career Wayne’s conduct has always been of the highest standard. In 2002, in recognition of fifteen years irreproachable service, he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. In total Wayne has been awarded six medals for service around the world. Most recently, on a daily basis he has represented his trade at high level meetings, providing consultancy for government organisations and commercial contractors on major equipment matters and Explosive Ordnance Disposal procedures.’