Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain G. L. Fulford, Devonshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. L. Fulford.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt. G. L. Fulford) very fine (3) £100-£140

Provenance: Glendining’s, September 1991.

George Langdon Fulford was born in 1880 at Woodbury, Devon, the son of John and Blanche Fulford and was educated at Exeter School and Keble College, Oxford. He was commissioned from the University and Public School Corps to be Second Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on 11 December 1914. He served in India from 1914 to 1916 and was promoted Temporary Lieutenant on 4 April 1916 and Adjutant on 10 October 1916. He served in Mesopotamia in 1917 and entered his first theatre of war there on 1 January 1918 before being advanced Acting Captain on 31 January 1918. He remained in Mesopotamia until the end of the war at which time he embarked for duty at Basra where he served as Staff Captain with the 52nd Infantry Brigade, 1919-1920. He relinquished his commission on 30 September 1921 under Army Order 166/2 and retained the rank of Lieutenant. He died in 1958 at Farnham, Surrey.

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