Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Gunner H. Brennard, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (161074 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (161074 Gnr., R.A.) together with Second War group of three, comprising 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal, in card box of issue addressed to Mrs Nora Brennand in Blackburn, Lancs, the first with bad edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (6) £100-120

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919: ‘15th Battery, 36th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Blackburn).’

Surname spelt Brennand in London Gazette and on M.M., and Brennard on Great War pair and Medal Index Card.

Thomas Nocholson Brennand, Deck Boy, Merchant Navy, died on 27 October 1942, when the liner Stentor was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine about 200 miles west of the Canary Islands. She was the leading ship of a convoy of some 40 vessels which left Freetown for the United Kingdom in October 1942. Twenty-one of her crew, including the Captain, and 23 passengers were lost.