Five: Private T. L. Fearn, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, attached 1st Docks Operating Group, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action when the S.S. Yoma was torpedoed and sunk off the Libyan coast on 17 June 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. H. Fearn, 10 Birley Rise Road, Birley Carr, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield 6.’, mounted for display in a glazed display frame, extremely fine (5) £100-£140

Thomas Leslie Fearn was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 22 January 1919. He attested for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Aldershot on 16 October 1939, and served with them during the Second World War in North Africa. He was killed in action, presumed drowned at sea, when his transport ship the S.S. Yoma was torpedoed and sunk off the port of Derna, Libya, on the morning of 17 June 1943, with the loss of 484 lives. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey.

Sold with a silver cigarette case inscribed ‘T. L. Fearn, 21st Birthday, Jan: 22nd 1940’; the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; the recipient’s bed plate stamped ‘No. 8134 T. Fearn’; official notification of death; a postcard photograph of the recipient; various other postcards written to the recipient; and and a small framed photograph of the recipient.