Ivor LANGSTONE
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- Ivor LANGSTONE. MBE. Ex WO2 2221593 of Uttoxeter. Died 12 September 2012 aged 85. Ivor served with the Royal Air Force during his National Service and on discharge in 1948 he joined the 7th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment TA. He then transferred to the Regular Army in July 1958 and served with the 1st battalion The Worcestershire Regiment in the Caribbean, N Africa, BAOR, Gibraltar, Tobruk, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and UK. He remained with the regiment when on amalgamation in 1970 it became The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment. In 1972 he served in Berlin as Weapons Training Warrant Officer with 1 WFR Command Coy. He also served with B Company 1st Battalion Mercian Volunteers as their Senior PSI and was a major influence in the development of the Company where he was an excellent PSI and a very good ambassador of the Regiment. He left 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment on 19 December 1977.
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Poppy Cross Memorial was at the Mercian Volunteers Memorial 11 November 2018
