Pair: Third Engineer S. F. Townend, Mercantile Marine, who survived the sinking of S.S. Verdi by the German Submarine U-53 on 22 August 1917

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Sidney F. Townend) both in slightly damaged named card boxes of issue, with out OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. S. F. Townend, 9 Coltart Road, Princes Park, Liverpool’; together with the recipient’s cloth Officer’s Torpedo Badge, extremely fine (3) £80-£120

Sidney Firth Townend was born in Sandal, Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 19 September 1890 and served during the Great War in the Mercantile Marine. He was serving as Fifth Engineer in the Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Steam Navigation Company’s S.S. Verdi when, on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, she was sunk by the German submarine U-53 115 miles north west of Eagle Island on 22 August 1917, with the loss of six lives.

Sold together with the recipient’s Continuous Certificate of Discharge; testimonial letter; portrait photograph, and other ephemera.