PRIVATE L.P. LACEY, PARACHUTE REGIMENT. Campaign Service Medal 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (officially impressed: 24277218 PTE. L.P. LACEY PARA). Extremely Fine.
Private Lacey's service number indicates that he enlisted circa February 1971.
Medal accompanied by copied table of post-WW2 British army service numbers for calculating the approximate date of enlistment of soldiers, originally published in the Orders and Medals Research Journal, and by copied extracts from Michael Dewar's "The British Army in Northern Ireland" giving dates for the deployments of the three battalions of the Parachute Regiment during the early years of the campaign there.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Parachute Regiment all saw service in Northern Ireland during the opening phase of the campaign there, the 1st Battalion first seeing service from 12/10/1969 to 19/2/1970, the 2nd Battalion from 28/2/1970 to 24/6/1970 and the 3rd Battalion from 19/1/1971 to 3/6/1971.
On 20/1/1972 "Bloody Sunday" Paratroopers from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment shot and killed 13 unarmed civilians in Londonderry.
