Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Able Seaman H. C. Luffingham, Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, interned in Holland, 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (L6/2426 Ord. Sea., R.N.V.R. Collingwood Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (L.S.2426 A.B., R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (3) £200-240

Harold Carr Luffingham was born on 16 September 1888. Living Brockley, London, and a Clerk by occupation, he was mobilised on 2 August 1914. Joining the Collingwood Battalion on 22 August 1914 he proceeded to Belgium. He was interned in Holland on 8 October 1914. His service papers record two periods of ’leave’ from Holland - in 1916 and again in 1918. He was repatriated on 19 November 1918 and demobilised on 9 January 1919. With original (damaged) medal card box of issue and copied service papers.