General Service Medal clasp Northern Ireland (25037191 RGR S CREE R IRISH); North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Medal clasp Kosovo; Operational Service Medal for Sierre Leone (25037191 RGR S CREE R IRISH); Iraq Medal clasp 19 Mar to 28 Apr 2003 (25037191 LCPL S CREE R IRISH); Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan (25037191 CPL S CREE R IRISH); Jubilee Medal 2002; Jubilee Medal 2012; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (25037191 LCP S CREE R IRISH); Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal EIIR bar Regular Army (CPL S CREE R IRISH 25037191)
Samuel Cree was born in 1971. He enlisted with the Royal Irish Regiment on 16 September 1994 and served with them on 6 operational tours to Northern Ireland, once to Kosovo in 1999, to Iraq in 2003 & 2008, to Sierre Leone in 2001 and to Afghanistan in 2009 & 2013. He was discharged as a Corporal on 18 September 2018 after spending his last few years with the Royal Scots.
Deployed to Northern Ireland early on in his military career, he was deployed as a Medical Assistant He was in the Milan Platoon in Kosovo in 1999 as the platoon medic having transferred from Infantry where he spent the first five years of his service. He was also a medic on Op Telic in Iraq where he had his "fair share of casualties to deal with." He also served on an op in Sierre Leone where, at times, the heat was an intense 55 degrees and constant rain. He next worked as a Regimental Police NCO - known as Sammy the Bastard. He was on tour to Afghanistan in Op Herrick 1 as an RP. he later returned to the Royal Irish where he became the Regimental Postal NCO. He was later transferred to the Royal Scots based at Fort George.
Cree was, very recently, in the news for all the wrong reasons, the Northern Scot of 7 August 2024 reporting,
"Elgin army veteran clawed wife’s tooth out in ‘petrifying’ attack, Inverness Sheriff Court hears By Ali Morrison
Published: 17:34, 07 August 2024
A woman has told of her terror after she had a tooth clawed out during an attack by her cross-dressing army veteran husband. Samuel Cree, who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, was “sweating profusely” as he attacked his wife of 19 years while wearing a pink bra. Samuel Cree has been convicted of assault to injury at Inverness Sheriff Court.
After the attack ended, Rebecca Cree calmed her ex-husband down by convincing him to high-five her and make her a cup of tea. Cree, from Elgin, then dressed up in a black mini skirt, black tights and ballerina shoes while waiting for military welfare officers to arrive. Mrs Cree, who is now estranged from her 53-year-old ex-partner, told the trial that she was asleep in a bedroom in Inverness when he burst in.
She said: "He was sweating profusely and was wearing a pink bra, jogging bottoms and trainers. "He was crazy - full of rage - yelling for me to lay back down and go to sleep. “He pinned my arms down with his knees and started punching the side of my face. "He then put his fingers in my mouth. I couldn't breathe. He clawed his hand as he took it out and I saw a tooth go flying out. "I was calling for help because the window was slightly open. He passed me a towel to wipe the blood off me and I tried reverse psychology to calm things down.
"I said to him to give me a high five and we went downstairs. He made me a cup of tea and then went back upstairs to bring down a black bag with white polka dots. "It was full of women's clothes and he changed into them before the padre and welfare officer came round. "He said out of the blue: 'A red mist descended. I must stop killing my wife.'
“I thought he was beating the living daylights out of me to get rid of me. I was petrified." After two army officers arrived and saw him in his female dress, Cree said "this is how I am”.
The army personnel, Barry Smith and Rev. Jeff Berry, both told the court that Cree seemed confused and they spent over an hour and a half with the couple trying to establish what happened. They said that his explanation was that he woke up startled and thought the house was on fire. Rev. Berry said: "He said he thought he was slapping his wife to wake her to get her out of the house, but he was actually punching her. "He then apologised for punching."
At Inverness Sheriff Court, Cree denied assaulting his wife to her severe injury by punching her repeatedly on the head, placing his hand in her mouth and pulling out one of her teeth. He was convicted by Sheriff David Sutherland of assault to injury which occurred in a house in Wimberley Way, Inverness, on June 20, 2023. His defence lawyer John MacColl successfully argued there was no evidence that he breached a bail condition imposed by a police undertaking not to contact her. Sentence was deferred until September 16 for a background and psychiatric report. His bail was continued."
Medals are in good condition unless otherwise indicated. Sold with copy of service record and a resume of his career in his won words.
