Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Yangtze campaign medal issued posthumously to Stoker Mechanic V. D. Maskell, Royal Navy, one of the 20 officers and men killed aboard H.M.S. Amethyst during the incident

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (C.KX 118897 V. D. Maskell. Sto. Mech. R.N.) extremely fine
£5000-6000

Stoker Mechanic Victor Douglas Maskell, R.N., a native of Oakham, Rutland, was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Amethyst during the Yangtze incident, 20 April 1949. Of approximately 172 officers and men aboard the Amethyst during the Yangtze incident, 20 were killed or died of wounds, and 32 were wounded.