Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Ten: Acting Lieutenant-Commander W. Mingay, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (M.937, W. E. Mingay, S.S.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.937, W. E. Mingay, V.C.P.O. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (W.937 W. E. Mingay. S.C.P.O. H.M.S. Dragon) mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better

Six: Lieutenant-Commander G. E. Mingay, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (16)

William Edmund Mingay was born in Portsmouth on 15 September 1893 and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 25 March 1909; his Great War service included service in H.M. Ships Acateon, Hussar and Blenheim. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a £20 gratuity on 25 November 1930, he was advanced Commissioned Supply Officer on 17 July 1939. He served throughout the Second World War, and was Mentioned in Despatches for the withdrawal from Crete (London Gazette 8 January 1942). Advanced Acting Lieutenant-Commander in 1945, he retired in 1946, and died in 1979.

Gordon Edmund Mingay served during the Second World War as a Lieutenant-Commander, and was present at both the Sicily and Salerno landings. After a career as a distinguished and well published University Professor of Agrarian History at the University of Kent, he retired as Emeritus Professor in 1986, and died in 2005.