General service medal with Northern Ireland bar

[daniel1234]

Hello all,
i would like to share with you my newest addition a named General service medal with a Northern Ireland bar.

[Tango]

Dan a very nice addition to any collection . You can't far wrong collecting the GSM. I think there 20 odd bars/clasps & 7 GSM's 3 Navy & 4 Army/Navy/RAF.. ER II has to types one rarer than the other I did read that somewhere can't remember where??. Thanks for showing. Cheers Terry.

[robin morley]

nice medal, I have one of these kicking around in my bedside draw. To whom is it named.

[daniel1234]

nice medal, I have one of these kicking around in my bedside draw. To whom is it named.

It is named to R.A.French, he was in a tank regiment.
Would be nice to see yours Robin.

[HARRY THE MOLE]

Here's mine. Its named to Gunner Steve Corbett. RA

[daniel1234]

Beautiful Steve, great that you kept it.
I find it sad many vets/their family sold their medals.
Makes me wonder what happened to the guy on my medal.

[HARRY THE MOLE]

I also have my original diaries kept on both tours, ID tags, beret and 13 troop T shirt I last wore on patrol in New Lodge - October 1974. Other items are my range score card when training before deployment to Ireland, all my photographs I took on my last tour, 'wanted' cards, yellow card, blue card - people who served there will know what these are... And no son to leave them to!

As for your medal. My service number began 241. That equates to a '69' intake. That will give you an idea when I was there. Numbers starting '242' were probably late 70's

Cheers,
Steve.

[daniel1234]

Mine starts 2414 so I assume he was 69/70

[HARRY THE MOLE]

Probably 1968.

[daniel1234]

Probably 1968.

Thanks Steve, you have taught me lots about my ni medal
and a good piece of info for any future reference on dating the medals.