Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.109151 G. A. Burgess, A.B., H.M.S. Arethusa) extremely fine £100-140

Leading Seaman George Alfred Burgess, Royal Navy, was killed in action on 12 March 1943, aged 34 years, when serving on the destroyer H.M.S. Lightning. The destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by an Italian motor torpedo boat off the North African coast. Two officers and 44 ratings were killed. With copied research.