Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Engineer J. C. Hall, Merchant Navy, who lost his life on the occasion the S.S. Linwood was mined in the Thames Estuary in November 1942

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with the recipient’s Minister of Transport condolence slip in the name of ‘Jefferson C. Hall’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Jefferson Copeland Hall, who was born in South Shields in 1896, was serving as Chief Engineer aboard the S.S. Linwood, bound from Sunderland to London, when she struck a mine off the Longsand Buoy in the Thames Estuary on 15 November 1942 - and went down in a minute. The husband of Norah Hall of South Shields, he was 46 years old, and is commemorated on the Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill, London; sold with a quantity of research, including a copy of the Master’s report of events on the 15 November 1942 - he, and a handful of others, survived the ordeal.