Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Engineer Officer Wallace R. Jaggs, Merchant Navy, who died on 18 May 1943

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Wallace R. Jaggs); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, extremely fine (5) £80-100

Chief Engineer Officer Wallace Reid Jaggs, Merchant Navy, died on 18 May 1943, aged 56 years. The CWGC website lists his last vessel to be the S.S. Winkleigh, of London. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by the U-48 on 8 September 1939, some 500 miles west of Bishop Rock, when en route from Vancouver to Manchester carrying a cargo of grain and lumber. All 37 members of her crew were rescued.

With condolence slip named to ‘William Reid Jaggs’ - ‘William’ being crossed out and replaced by ‘Wallace’; authority to wear document for the British War and Mercantile Marine Medals, with associated Board of Trade slip; named (damaged) card boxes of issue; metal and cloth badge; together with copied research.