The medal was presented to Captain Maclachlainn, left, by governor of Edinburgh Castle Major General Mike Riddell-Webster CBE DSO.
South Uist resident Captain Eoghann Maclachlainn was presented with the General Service Medal 62 with Clasp South Arabia at Edinburgh Castle last weekend – more than 50 years aTher he was seriously injured in a battle overseas while on a Territorial Army mission.
Medals will also be issued to the families of Sergeant Major John Lonergan who was killed in the battle in 1965 and Sergeant George Gibson Earl.