Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (James Hosking) extremely fine £40-60

Attributed to Able Seaman James Hosking died on 8 December 1939, aged 58 years, when the steamer S.S. Corea of Goole, struck a mine and sank off Cromer, Norfolk. Hosking was one of eight members of the crew killed; a further seven were rescued by the Cromer lifeboat. Hosking’s name is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial. With copied research.