Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: attributed to Able Seaman Ernest Sykes, Royal Navy, killed in action serving aboard H.M.S. Egret, 27 August 1943

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (4) £60-80

The sloop Egret was sunk by a German glider bomb off the coast of N.W. Spain on 27 August 1943. Six officers and 188 ratings were killed. Amongst those lost was Able Seaman Ernest Sykes, aged 36 years. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He was the son of William and Rose Sykes and the husband of Mary Violet Marguerite Sykes of East Ham, Essex.

With Admiralty condolence slip named to ‘Ernest Sykes’; named commemorative scroll (damaged); two photographs of the recipient; one group photograph, and three photographs of H.M.S. Egret.