Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (23670382 Sgt. A. F. Martin. 3 Green Jackets.); together with Battalion Rifle Meeting 1960 Platoon Match Winners Medal, silvered-bronze, engraved ‘L/Cpl Martin. Best L.M.G. Shot’, extremely fine (2) £80-£120

Anthony F. Martin attested for the Royal Green Jackets and served with them as a Platoon Sergeant with 11 Platoon, C Company in Borneo. He was accidentally killed on 1 September 1965- his Platoon C.O., Second Lieutenant Simon Adams, wrote: ‘The Battalion started cross border patrolling and ambushes and one of these involved a plan to attack a village occupied by the military. 11 Platoon were now issued with new grenades, the M26, which could be fired from the end of an Armelite M16 rifle using a projectile cartridge. My Platoon Sergeant, Tony Martin, was killed on the range when a malfunction caused the grenade to be initiated before the cartridge was inserted. He tried to pull the grenade off the end of the rifle while the fuse burned down for four seconds. Riflemen Bonner and Thompson were unhurt, but Rifleman Baker, who had been holding the rifle and appeared to be OK was casevaced and we never saw him again. The operation went ahead and 10 days were spent in ambush but the village remained obstinately empty.’

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