Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal D. Armstrong, Royal Army Medical Corps

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Dhofar (23210854 L/Cpl. D. Armstrong RAMC.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (23210854 Cpl D Armstrong RAMC) mounted as worn, edge bruise to LS&GC, otherwise nearly extremely fine, the first rare to unit (2) £240-£280

David Armstrong, a State Enrolled Nurse, attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1956 and served with 55 Field Surgical Team in Dhofar from 1 August to 22 November 1972. The Teams were very small in number and were comprised of 12 officers and NCOs, each with a specialist roll.

The new 55 Field Surgical Team arrived in Dhofar on 1 August 1971 and soon got used to the heat and sound of gun fire. The Team was commanded by Major D. G. Stock, R.A.M.C., a General Surgeon with one Anaesthetist (Major), one Transfusion Officer (Major), four Operating Theatre Technicians (NCOs), one Sergeant in charge of the ward, one Sergeant Radiographer, one Sergeant Pathology Laboratory Technician, one State Enrolled Nurse (Lance Corporal D Armstrong) and one Clerk (Lance Corporal), total 12 officers and NCOs. Straight into treating casualties in August alone they completed 70 operations of which 51 were due to gun shot wounds. The Team made R.A.M.C. history when, following a limited mutiny by the Oman Artillery who walked out leaving the 25 pounder guns unmanned, they helped to man the guns for 48 hours with their Geneva Convention cards firmly in their back pockets.

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