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6 & 7 December 2017

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Lot

№ 715

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6 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£600

General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, second clasp unofficially attached, as issued (23969012 Gdsm. A. Leg. SG.) nearly extremely fine £160-200

A typed note with the medal states:
‘23969012 Gdsmn A. Leg - Scots Guards
1963 - Joins 1st Battalion, Scots Guards

1964 - Volunteers for 1st (Guards) Independent Parachute Company, which in February was sent to Hereford and trained under control of 22nd S.A.S. Regiment. Some members also sent to several hospitals and trained in field surgery techniques.
In April, sent to Singapore and the Jungle Welfare Training Centre.
From June to November the Company spent on patrol in Sarawak, and then returned home.

1965 - Guardsman Leg volunteers to join the newly formed “G” (Guards) Squadron, 22 S.A.S. Regiment, which culminated in him being sent out to Malaysia and the patrolling into 1966.

The above information came out in conversation with a current serving Lieutenant, 22 S.A.S., who served in Borneo in “B” Squadron at the same time as “G” Squadron and knew Guardsman Leg.’