Description
General Service Medal 1962, bar Northern Ireland, 24745086 Private R.M. Owen, Queens Regiment.
Officially impressed: “24745086 Pte R M Owen Queens”
Service Number corresponds to enlistment circa 1984-5.
The Queen’s Regiment was a relatively short lived unit active between 1966-1992, with lineage from the Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment, Queen’s Own Buffs, Royal Sussex and Middlesex Regiment.
They would see extensive deployments to Northern Ireland during the Troubles, having spent 29 operational tours over 30 years:
“The deployment of the regiment’s battalions was primarily to Northern Ireland on Operation Banner during The Troubles, taking part in anti-terrorist operations. The 1st Battalion was almost continuously deployed there between August 1969 and November 1976. The Longest Stag, a recent publication, provides a very detailed account of The Queen’s Regiment deployed to Northern Ireland over more than 30 years. In all, twenty-nine operational tours were served by the Regiment.”
