Six: Leading Seaman T. Armstrong, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.111121 L.S., H.M.S. Emperor) minor contact marks, very fine and better, scarce (6) £100-140

H.M.S. Emperor was an U.S.A. escort carrier, leased to the U.K. during 1943-46. The ship had battle honours for ‘Atlantic 1943-44’, ‘Norway 1944’; ‘Aegean 1944’; ‘Normandy 1944’; ‘South France 1944’; ‘Malaya 1945’, and ‘Burma 1945’. She was returned to the U.S.A. in 1946 and sold for scrapping in the same year.