Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Five: Chief Steward G. V. Bathe, Merchant Navy, late Marine Fleet Auxiliary

1914-15 Star (Ch. Std., M.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Std., M.F.A.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine (5) £100-150

George Victor Bathe served as Chief Steward in the Marine Fleet Auxiliary during the Great War. In the Second World War, as Barkeeper aboard Elders & Fyffes liner S.S. Carare he was killed in action on 28.5.1940 when the ship struck a magnetic mine near Foreland Point in the Bristol Channel. The ship was en-route from Avonmouth to Jamaica and Colombia; seven of her crew and three passengers were killed in the action. Bathe, who died age 57 years, is commemorated in Filton Churchyard, Gloucestershire.