Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lance-Corporal J. E. Hood, Irish Guards, late Coldstream Guards

General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Northern Ireland, Air Operations Iraq (24863061 Gdsm, Coldm Gds) second clasp loose on ribbon; U.N. Medal, UNPROFOR ribbon; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Kosovo, these unnamed; Iraq 2003, 1 clasp, 19 Mar to 28 Apr 2003 (2486301 LCpl, IG); Jubilee 2002, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (5) £800-1000

Jason Ernest Hood joined the Coldstream Guards on 24 January 1989. Qualified for the G.S.M. with Northern Ireland clasp in 1991. In 1993 he went with his unit to Yugoslavia for service with UNPROFOR. On 23 December 1993 Hood and three other members of the battalion were escorting an aid convoy of the Edinburgh Direct Aid Organisation when it was attacked and its members abducted at gunpoint by members of the B.I.H. (Muslim irregulars) in retaliation for one of their ambulance drivers who had been captured by the Croats. Their eventual release was negotiated by Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Williams, C.O. of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. Hood qualified for the N.A.T.O. Medal for Kosovo in September 1999 and the Air Operations Iraq clasp in June 2004. Hood left the Army on 16 March 2011.

With copied Certificate of Service and copied note re. the incident of 23 December 1993. Also with three photographs taken in Bosnia 1993-94.