Naval Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. EIIR 2nd issue (KX.93848 W. F. Toomer, P.O.M.(E). H.M.S. Reggio)

Medal(s) verification: The Naval LSGC to Petty Officer Mechanic (Electrical) William Frederick Toomer, confirmed per below referenced source. The recipient additionally entitled to a War Medal, and almost certainly awarded several other Second World War campaign medals for his service 1939 -1945

- Naval LS&GC Medal: Reference ADM 171/158. Medal awarded 27 July 1956

Important: Medal verified as awarded, per claim received on, 20 January 1959, with Authority for Payment being issued on, 16 February 1959 (reference ADM 171/154)

H.M.S. Reggio (formerly Landing Ship Tank No.3551): Landing Ship Tank, abbreviation LST, was a naval ship specially designed to transport and deploy troops, vehicles, and supplies onto foreign shores for the conduct of offensive military operations. LSTs were designed during World War II to disembark military forces without the use of dock facilities or the various cranes and lifts necessary to unload merchant ships. They gave the Allies the ability to conduct amphibious invasions at any location on a foreign shore that had a gradually sloped beach. This ability permitted the Allies to assault poorly defended sectors, thereby achieving operational surprise and in some cases even tactical surprise. H..M.S. Reggio served post-war in the Mediterranean, and was present with the invasion fleet deployed to Egypt / Suez Canal during 'Operation Musketeer' in 1956

William Frederick Toomer, had been stationed in the Crown Colony of Malta in the 1950's at the Combined Operations Base H.M.S. Phoenicia, from which base he had been posted to H.M.S. Reggio at the time of receiving his Naval Long Service & Good Conduct Medal

Scarce seen medal named to H.M.S. Reggio

Condition: EF

Code: 23904