Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Sebastian (W. Langley, Master’s Mate.) overall edge bruising and rubbing, evidence of fire damage, therefore good fine £1200-1500

William Langley entered the Navy on 2 April 1805, as Master’s Mate, on board the Sir Edward Hughes 38, Captains Hood Hanway Christian, Gilbert Heathcote, and Edward Ratsey, attached to the force in the East Indies. Removing, in October 1807, to the Cumberland 74, he was for five years employed in that ship on the Mediterranean and North Sea stations under the orders of Captains Hon. Philip Wodehouse, Elias Harvey, Robert Clephane, Robert Waller Otway, and Thomas Baker; after which we find him, from October 1812 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 3 February 1815, serving on board the Impètueux 74, flag-ship off Lisbon of the late Sir George Martin, Magicienne 36, Captain Hon. William Gordon, under whom he witnessed the fall of St. Sebastian in September 1813, and Prince 98, and Montagu 74, commanded at Spithead and Cork by Captains George Fowke and Peter Heywood. He retired on half-pay on 3 February 1815.