Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Radfan (2396541 [sic] Pte. B. T. Fox. 1 E. Anglian.) in card box, abrasive scratch marks to obverse and reverse, edge bruising, good fine £70-£90

Bernard Thomas Fox was born on 21 February 1943 and attested for the East Anglian Regiment with service no. 23965341. He served with the Regiment as part of the Aden Brigade in the Radfan, and was killed when his Westland Wessex HAS1 transport helicopter XM873 crashed- a sudden wind veer just prior to touchdown at an elevation of 5,000 feet caused it to bounce several times, the tail section parted, and the aircraft rolled over 5 times into a 150ft deep gully at Wadi Misrah on the Radfan Plateau. Remarkably, of the 8 occupants, Fox was the only fatality. He is buried in Maala Cemetery, Yemen.