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Combat shirt, desert DPM, 2003-2006. Bears on right sleeve: black parachute wings cloth badge, QARANC red with blue and white stripe tactical recognition flash, ISAF cloth badge. Bears of left sleeve: black Union Jack cloth badge, 4th Armoured Infantry Brigade (Desert Rats) tactical recognition flash, Red Cross medical cloth badge. Lt Colonel rank cloth badge at the front. Part of a combat uniform and associated equipment worn by Lt Col Rodney Eldridge in Op Telic 1, Iraq, 2003 and Op Herrick 4, Afghanistan, 2006. Associated with Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021). From a collection of items relating to mental health nurse Lt Col R Eldridge, QARANC (Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps), who served in Northern Ireland (1988), the Balkans, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan (2006 and 2010) and subsequently suffered from PTSD.

Iraq (2003-2011), Afghanistan (2001-2021)