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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 128

Three: Chief Constructor W. H. Wallond, Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, who oversaw shipbuilding at Chatham Dockyards throughout the Second World War

1914-15 Star (Asst. Constr. W. H. Wallond, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Asst. Constr. W. H. Wallond R.C.N.C.), extremely fine and rare to unit (3)

W. H. Wallond became an Assistant Constructor, 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. King George V on 3 March 1914, with the rank of Engineering Lieutenant (Navy List, September 1914). Advanced to 1st Class in 1917, he had served aboard H.M.S. Haslar and London by the War's end. Stationed at Devonport from 1921, he became a Constructor in the dockyards at Hong Kong in 1930. In September 1939 he was posted to Chatham Dockyards as Chief Constructor, a role he performed throughout the Second World War; sold with copied extracts from D. K. Brown's A Century of Naval Construction: The History of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors 1883-1983 (Conway Maritime Press), and a Royal Corps of Naval Constructors' cap badge, the reverse officially numbered '104' and additionally named 'W. H. Wallond.'.


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£150