Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 November 2015

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 396 x

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25 November 2015

Hammer Price:
£120

Three: Midshipman F. G. R. Langford, Royal Naval Reserve

British War Medal 1914-20 (Mid. F. G. R. Langford, R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (F. G. R. Langford); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Mid. F. G. R. Langford, R.N.R.) mounted for wear, very fine and better (3) £80-120

Frederick Gordon Roy Langford was born in London in 1899, the son of the Rev. Charles Langford of St. George’s, Hanover Square. Appointed a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve in September 1916, Frederick first went to sea in the battleship H.M.S. Royal Oak in the following month, in which capacity he remained employed until removing to the hospital ship Garth Castle in December 1917. His final wartime appointment was in the Coventry, his service record noting that he was landed at Danzig with Lieutenant-Commander Rawlings on 25 December 1918, with orders to proceed to Pasca to accompany ‘Colonel Wade on his mission to Poland’. He was demobilised in September 1919 and claimed his Mercantile Marine War Medal in December 1940; sold with copied research.