Description
General Service Medal 1962, clasp Northern Ireland, 24131092 Lance Corporal T.J.A. Dye, Royal Tank Regiment.
Officially impressed: “24131092 L/Cpl T J A Dye RTR”
Service number corresponds to a late 1960s enlistment.
Birth records from the period recall a “Trevor J.A. Dye” born in Ipswich during 1950, lining up with having joined up aged about 18.
Particularly early connection to Operation Banner which started in 1969 likely seeing an early tour, the RTR started deployments in Northern Ireland about 1972-73, including a rotation at the infamous HM Prison “Maze”.
A newspaper article from 1972 shows a photograph of a soldier “Lance Corporal Trevor Dye” saluting that day’s guest of honour at Bovington Camp, an old veteran Major Bill Masterson, the name and rank lines up precisely with his service.
There is a photograph of the two as he salutes the old WW1 Veteran: “This morning, he was given a salute from Lance Corporal Trevor Dye as he left his home in Castle Street.”
