Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Brocklebank Medal, 32mm, silver, the obverse featuring the blue and white enamelled company flag, ‘Marine A. Little’ engraved above and below, reverse inscribed in raised letters, ‘Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, S.S. “Magdapur” 10th September 1939, Sunk by Enemy Action’, with ring suspension, edge bruising, very fine £140-180

Albert Little served during the Second World War in H.M. Auxiliary Ship Magdapur, and sustained extensive bruising on his right buttock and also suffered from traumatic neurosis following the sinking of the Magdapur on 10 September 1939. He was admitted to Royal Navy Sick Quarters at Shotley on 12 September 1939.

The Magdupur, a steam freighter owned by the Brocklebank Company, Liverpool, struck a mine in the North Sea off the East Anglian coast, at 17:25 on 10 September 1939, and sank within minutes. The Master, Captain A. G. Dixon, and 74 crew were rescued by the Aldeburgh lifeboat and coasters. Six of the crew were lost.

Sold together with the recipient’s Certificate for Wounds and Hurts, and a photograph of the Magdapur sinking beneath the waves.