Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Second Radio Officer K. W. F. Henderson, Merchant Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals, together with, named condolence slip and box of issue addressed to father at Preston, Lancs.; also included with the lot are his father’s British War and Victory Medals (24574 Pte., R. Lanc. R.), generally nearly extremely fine (6) £35-45

Second Radio Officer Kenneth Walter Forbes Henderson was drowned on 8 January 1945 when the S.S. Ashbury was wrecked during a heavy storm off the West coast of Sutherland. The entire crew of 41 perished in this incident. Sold with copied research, including a newspaper article with picture of Henderson.