Lot Archive

Download Images

Lot

№ 47

.

23 November 2009

Hammer Price:
£110

Three: Temporary Lieutenant R. W. Henfrey, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action in H.M.S. Sotra in January 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original addressed card forwarding box, the side inscribed, ‘S/12652’, and the Navy Accounts label ‘DNA (Wills) and ‘52/696’, together with related Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Temporary Lieutenant Ronald William Henfrey, R.N.V.R.’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

View Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith

View
Collection

Ronald William Henfrey was killed in action on 29 January 1942, while serving in the minesweeper (ex-whaler) H.M.S. Sotra, on which date she was torpedoed and sunk by the U-431, commanded by Wilhelm Dommes, a holder of the Knight’s Cross, off Bardia. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lowestoft Memorial; the above described forwarding box is addressed to his re-married widow, ‘Mrs. Isabel F. H. Higson, 14 Church Terrace, Wisbech, Cambs.’