Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Staff Sergeant D. W. Saunders, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, Parachute Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Near East, Cyprus (23212313 Pte. D. Saunders. Para.); General Service 1962-2007, 4 clasps, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, South Arabia, Northern Ireland, all clasps mounted in order listed, back-strap of the last clasp cut through (23212313 Pte. D. W. Saunders. Para.); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP ribbon; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (23212313 S. Sgt. D. W. Saunders Para.) good very fine (4) £1,800-£2,200

Derek William Saunders was born on 13 October 1936, at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and enlisted into the Parachute Regiment in 1956. According to the various Location Lists from Pegasus magazine, in 1966 he was Acting Colour-Sergeant in 2 PARA, and from April 1973 to April 1976, he is a Colour-Sergeant with 3 PARA. He died on New Year’s Eve 1982 at Jedda, Saudi Arabia, and was buried in England on 25 January 1983.

Sold with a copied news cutting from the Birmingham Post dated 2 January 1965, illustrating Colour-Sergeant Brunton issuing jungle greens and a Golok knife to Sergeant D. Saunders, of Kidderminster, at Aldershot Barracks as members of the 2nd Battn. Parachute Regiment were kitted out for service in the Far East.