Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (LX. 20012 J. A. Mockford, Std., H.M.S. Kingston) good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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The destroyer H.M.S. Kingston won seven Battle Honours in her somewhat brief operational career, for she was bombed and sunk while in dock at Malta in April 1942. She had earlier participated in the evacuation of Greece and Crete, when she was damaged by enemy aircraft, and in the Second Battle of Sirte, when she was hit by a shell when delivering a torpedo attack on the Littorio.