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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 81

Pair: Major A. C. Anderson, Royal Army Pay Corps, late 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Lt. A. C. Anderson 13/18 H.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (Major A. C. Anderson RAPC.), mounted court-style as worn, good very fine and an unusual combination (2)

Angus Campbell Anderson was born on 31 August 1930 and served in the ranks for some 212 days, before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into the Royal Armoured Corps on 21 January 1954 having had joined the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) in October 1953. He served with this unit on active service in Malaya and then as Adjutant from 1959-63, having been made Captain - and counted on the books of the Pay Corps- in October 1959, also having had a spell at the Portuguese Cavalry School in September 1959. Advanced Major in December 1966, Anderson was Staff Paymaster 2 HQ Scotland in April 1972 and was also involved in assisting the Norwegian Contingent at the Edinburgh Tattoo that same year.

Having seen further active service in Northern Ireland, the good Major died on 20 November 2011 in Woking, his final unit being listed as The Light Dragoons; sold together with engraved plaques from the Portuguese Cavalry School, 1956, HPCCD RE Officers Mess, February 1976 & HQ RCT Sgts Mess, May 1985, besides inscribed Norwegian book for the 1972 Tattoo and copied research.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240