Description
General Service Medal 1962-2007, clasp ‘BORNEO’, impressed “1410996 R.J. PHILP”.
A fine General Service medal to an Australian serving in Borneo, the medal lustrous and grade is as issued,
R.J. Philp served with the 4th Infantry Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment as Private 1410996, seeing service toward the end of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation as part of the Far East Strategic Reserve. Following battalion training, the 4th R.A.R. was deployed to Kuching, Sarawak in April 1966 where it was to operate from four company bases in the Bau area until the treaty between Malaysia and Indonesia on the 11th August 1966.