Description
Operational Service Medal, EIIR, bar Afghanistan, 25235276 Private B. Sullivan, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment PWRR
Officially laser engraved: “25235276 Pte B Sullivan PWRR”
Service Number likely corresponds to enlistment some time around 2004-2007.
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, aka “The Tigers” holds an envious record, having just earlier in 2005 earned the First living Victoria Cross awarded in 40 years since the Vietnam War, when L Cpl Johnson Beharry was awarded it for services in Iraq, as well as claiming various other decorations for Gallantry.
One of their main noted deployments to Afghanistan during Operation Herick was a deployment during 2011 taking over responsibility for the Police Mentoring and Advisory Group (PMAG) in Lashkar Gah, with individual companies being detached to other battlegroups around Helmand Province.
Whilst the 1st PWRR were mainly there for helping train the local Police, they did not shy away from action whilst on treacherous patrols, notably Corporal Sean Jones would earn the Military Cross for leading “the most recent case in history of a successful bayonet charge”, when his group was ambushed in the village of Kakaran.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bayonet-charge-foils-enemy-ambush
