Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Assistant Cook T. Carter, Royal Navy, killed in action when H.M.S. Grenville struck a mine in the Thames Estuary, 19 January 1940

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. A. G. Carter, 45 Foxbury Lane, Gosport, Hants’, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties.

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Thomas Carter served during the Second World War in H.M.S. Grenville, the flotilla-leader for the G-Class Destroyers, and was involved in several attempts to intercept enemy shipping traffic off the Dutch and German North Sea coasts. Whilst returning from one of these missions she struck a mine, which had been laid by air in the Thames Estuary, on 19 January 1940, and sunk with the loss of 77 lives, out of a total compliment of 191 Officers and crew. Carter was amongst those killed, aged 21, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.