Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Stoker G. F. Wiltshire, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star Trio (U.1650 Sto. R.N.R.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Frederick Wiltshire) mounted in a contemporary glazed display frame, extremely fine (4) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Langham Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

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George Frederick Wiltshire, Stoker, R.N.R., H.M.S. Newmarket, was killed in action on 17 July 1917 in the Eastern Mediterranean. The minesweeper Newmarket is believed to have been sunk by the U-38. He is commemorated by name on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.