Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: T. B. Storey, Merchant Navy and Royal Navy

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Thomas B. Storey); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed

Three: Seaman 1st Class E. Hutchinson, Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Edward Hutchinson); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (D.2962 E. Hutchinson, Sean. 1Cl.. R.N.R.)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (307472 Wilfred Wrigglesworth, S.P.O., H.M.S. Royal Oak) good very fine and better (12) £150-200

First two medals in (damaged) packets of issue; W.W.2 medals in part of the card forwarding box, showing part of the address as ‘.... S. Shields, Co. Durham’.; with Admiralty forwarding slip for 4 medals; an envelope, dated 1946 addressed to ‘T. B. Storey Esq., “Lingfield”, St Peter’s Avenue, Harton, South Shields’; and with two Royal Navy sweetheart brooches, one in silver, the other in silver and enamel.

H.M.S. Royal Oak was a Royal Sovereign Class dreadnought battleship; an early casualty of the Second World War, sunk by the U.47 in Scapa Flow, on 14 October 1939.