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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 920

(x) Three: Corporal A. E. Langley, 8th South African Infantry

British War and bilingual Victory Medals (Cpl. A. E. Langley. 8th S.A.I.), with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Alfred Edward Langley), the last with vertical wearing pin soldered to reverse, good very fine (3)


Alfred Edward Langley attested for the 8th South African Infantry on 25 November 1915 and was taken on strength five days later. A postman by occupation, he trained at Potchefstroom before being posted in February 1917 to Mingoyo, Tanzania. It was here that he suffered from measles and a reoccurrence of malaria, being sent to hospital at Dar-es-Salaam to treat the latter on 23 November 1917. Invalided from the service shortly thereafter, he disembarked at Durban from the hospital ship Neuralia and likely returned home to his wife, Catherine Maud Langley, who was then living at African House, Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth. He died on 14 September 1918 as a result of complications associated with malaria; sold with copied service record.

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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£40