Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Northern Ireland Prison Service Medal, E.II.R. (Gary Kissick 8859) on ‘prison grade’ riband, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £120-£160

Gary Kissick joined the Northern Ireland Prison Service in 1987 and served initially at H.M.P. Maze, working in Compound 17 which housed loyalist prisoners. He was transferred to H.M.P. Maghaberry in 1991, and the following year was shot in the head by a sharpened nail from an improvised catapult, causing severe damage. He was medically boarded out of the service in 1993.