Description
General Service Medal, 1918-1962, bar Malaya, General Service Medal 1962, 2 bars, Radfan, South Arabia, RAF LSGC, Sergeant G. W. Kellard, Royal Air Force.
GSM Malaya officially engraved: “4033296 L.A.C. G.W. KELLARD. R.A.F.”
GSM 1962 officially impressed: “4033296 SGT G.W. KELLARD R.A.F.”
RAF LSGC officially engraved: “4033296 SGT G.W. KELLARD R.A.F.”
A good modern era long service group spanning many years of service, the Malaya Clasp earned circa 1950, and his second GSM earned for service in 1964-66.
Sergeant Gerald William Kellard, enlisted as a Regular in the Royal Air Force at Cardington, sometime between Feb 1948 and October 1949.
Gerald was born in Lewisham, London on 27th August 1930.
Born to William Kellard and Elizabeth Evangeline Ling
The 1939 Census records him living in Teynham, Swale, Kent as a school boy, living with the Cooksley family.
He married Jean Royston at Westminster, London during 1951.
He later died in Torbay, Devon on 18th October 2002.
