Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Radio Officer David Oxspring, Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy), killed in action when serving on H.M.S. Manistee, 24 February 1941

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, extremely fine (2) £70-90

Radio Officer David Oxspring, Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy) was killed in action on 24 February 1941, aged 41 years, when the armed boarding vessel H.M.S. Manistee was torpedoed by the German submarine U-107 when in convoy, 500 miles south of Iceland. There were no survivors from the officers and crew of the ship. Oxspring’s name is commemorated on the Liverpool Naval Memorial. He was the son of David and Helen Oxspring and the husband of Catherine Barclay Oxspring.

With card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs C. B. Oxspring, c/o Messrs. Wordsworth & Co. Solicitors, 39 Lombard Street, London, E.C.3’; together with named ‘Admiralty’ condolence slip. With copied research.