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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 551

Three: Private L. Dugdale, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, late West Yorkshire Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Arabian Peninsula (22805323 Pte. L. Dugdale. W. Yorks.); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, South Arabia, Northern Ireland (22805323 Pte. L. Dugdale. PWO.); U.N. Medal, UNFICYP riband, unofficial retaining rod between clasps, edge bruise to first, good very fine (3)

The 1st Battalion, West Yorkshires were deployed in Perak and Pahang during the Malayan Emergency in 1953-55 and carried out numerous jungle patrols, sometimes lasting for weeks on end.

Back in action in Operation 'Musketeer' in 1956, the battalion was deployed to clear up and police Port Said. Assigned to the waterfront area, it raised a private 'West Yorkshire Navy' to patrol the harbour area, where one of its officers was abducted and murdered.

On returning home from the Canal Zone in 1958, the regiment was amalgamated with the East Yorkshires to form the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire. And the new regiment's first overseas deployment was to Aden in the Arabian Peninsula from September 1958 to June 1959, in which - with the help of the S.A.S. - rebels were expelled from their mountain stronghold. The regiment also served in Aden in the period September 1965 to September 1966, when two of its ranks were decorated and two killed in action.

Thereafter, in respect of Dugdale's service - and aside from a tour in Cyprus in 1970-72 - it was in Northern Ireland that he rounded off his active service career, the P.W.O. carrying out several operational tours in the troubled region in the period 1969-75 alone. During its first deployment in 1969, the regiment carried out vital patrol work and helped stabilise the situation in Co. Down area, in addition to taking overall responsibility for the security of Londonderry, where three days of rioting in August had all but exhausted the ranks of the R.U.C. During a subsequent emergency tour in Londonderry in 1975, a soldier of the P.W.O. was shot and killed by a sniper while on foot patrol in the Creggan housing estate.

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