Naval General Service Medal 1915-1962, GVIR 1st type bust, 1 Clasp: Minesweeping 1945-1951 awarded to W.F. Buckingham, Seaman, Royal Navy who had taken part in the minesweeping operations after the end of the Second World War.
Naval General Service Medal 1915-1962, GVIR 1st type bust; 1 Clasp: Minesweeping 1945-1951 (JX615712 W F BUCKINGHAM SEA RN.) Housed in card box of issue.
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
Along with:
Parchment Certificate of Service
His British passport which expired on 19th February 1990.
3 photographs of Buckingham in uniform as part of a group shot.
Walter Frederick Buckingham was born in Skegness on 22nd May 1926, and volunteered for the Royal Navy on 16th August 1943 for the duration of the emergency with his official time beginning on his eighteenth birthday on 22nd May 1944. Initially serving as a Signalman Boy, he would be appointed a Boy 1st Class on 14th October 1943, an Ordinary Seaman on 22nd November 1943 and a Seaman on 21st April 1944.
He would subsequent take part in the post war Minesweeping operations earning entitlement to the Naval General Service Medal with clasp Minesweeping 1945-1951 before being released from service on 15th June 1947.
