Scarce E2R General Service Medal clasp Arabian Peninsula named 2/LT C RAINBOW Y & L.
Christopher Rainbowwas born at Sidcup, Kent, on 27 January 1938 and was educated at King’s School, Taunton, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the York and Lancaster Regiment on 1 June 1957, and served in the Arabian Peninsula from April 1958, in Nukeiras, Aden Town and Am Nuam. He was promoted Lieutenant on 25 January 1959.
Rare medal to the regiment as they were disbanded on 7 December 1968. Sold with copied research including numerous copied pages from The Tiger & Rose regimental journal.