Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A campaign service group of six awarded to Sergeant S. C. “Sid” Clark, a founder member of 21 Special Air Service Regiment, late Royal Artillery and Royal West Kent Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., 1 clasp, Malaya (22290729 Tpr. S. C. Clark, S.A.S.), mounted as worn, the last extensively corrected, generally good very fine (6) £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Good Series of Awards to Members of the S.A.S..

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The following information was taken from Clark’s obituary in Mars and Minerva:

‘Sid Clark was a well-known long-serving and highly respected member of 21 S.A.S. from 1949-66 ... Sid never wanted to be a soldier as a boy but when the call came in 1939 he was already serving as a Territorial with a heavy A.A. Regiment. He went back to T.A. camp in September 1939 and never came back until 1946. He came off the beaches at Dunkirk and served with the 8th Army and in Special Forces to the end of the War. He joined 21 S.A.S. in 1950 and volunteered for Malaya, helping in the formation of 22 S.A.S. there. He was then Boat Sergeant and when the Boat Troop broke-up he joined the Demolitions Stick but was unlucky to break a leg in a motor accident at Bisley and later joined H.Q. Squadron as Rations Sergeant ... He has a unique place in S.A.S. history as one of the 16 founder members of 21 S.A.S. who, as Territorials, joined the Malayan Scouts from which the Regular 22 S.A.S. was founded.’

Sold with a substantial quantity of original documentation, including Boys Scouts Association (Hackney District) membership Card and Progress Record, issued in March 1932; a Certified Copy of Attestation, dated November 1949, in which Clark gives previous service in the 6th Battalion, Royal West Kents, and applies for an appointment in the A.A.C. and 21st S.A.S. Regiment (Artists) T.A.; a ‘Personal and Confidential’ carbon copy letter from Major Greville-Bell, D.S.O., dated at 21 S.A.S. H.Q., in September 1950, alerting Clark to the fact he might be imminently called up for operations overseas, this following similarly dated Regular Army Attestation (Copy included), for an 18 month engagement in the S.A.S.; official correspondence regarding Clark’s application for a Lieutenancy in the Malayan Police Service, dated 1953; three personal letters from his wife, all dated in September 1962, and addressed to Clark at an S.A.S., H.Q., B.F.P.O.; and assorted documentation dealing with his Army disablement allowance from the 1960s.

Withdrawn