Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Private R. S. Long, 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2572908 Pte., Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, very fine and better (9) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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Reginald Stanley Long was born in 1918. A Carpenter by trade, he enlisted into the Royal Tank Regiment on 25 October 1937. Transferring to the Hampshire Regiment in April 1938, he served in Palestine, November 1938-July 1939; Egypt, July-November 1939; Palestine, November 1939-June 1940; Egypt, June 1940-May 1941; Malta, May 1941-March 1943; Middle East, March- August 1943; N. Africa, August-November 1943; N.W. Europe, 2-29 June 1944, and August-December 1944. Transferred to the Middlesex Regiment in August 1945 and to the Army Reserve on 18 May 1946.

With two Hampshire Regiment prize medals: 45mm., bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Shooting Medal won by Pte. R. Long, Wolfe Platoon Sept. 1938’, unmounted, in Phillips, Aldershot fitted case; another, for boxing, 32mm., bronze, unnamed, with ring suspension, in Phillips, Aldershot fitted case. Together with the recipient’s Certificate of Service and Soldier’s Release Book and two photographs featuring Long.