Lot Archive

Lot

№ 750

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£75

1914-15 Star (E. V. French, A.B., M.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (A. F. Crisp, Tr., M.M.R.; James Thomson); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Major C. Willson; L.Z. 5789 R. Tyler, A.B., R.N.V.R.) the second with contact wear and polished, good fine, the remainder very fine and better (5) £40-60

A 2nd Engineer of the Mercantile Marine, by the name of James Thomson, was killed aboard the S.S. Agnette on 24 April 1918, when that vessel was torpedoed four miles off Start Point, Devon. He was 62 years of age and left a widow resident in Sunderland.