Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Eight: Captain D. C. Hamilton, Merchant Navy, 5 times sunk in the Two World Wars

British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (Douglas C. Hamilton); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star, with Pacific bar; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, nearly extremely fine and better (8) £250-300

Sold with stained card forwarding box, Board of Trade Authority to wear the British War and Mercantile Marine Medals, cloth Torpedo Badge with a fragmentary award document, together with a fascimile photograph of the recipient in uniform and some service details. The torpedo badge was awarded for being torpedoed 5 times.

Douglas Craig Hamilton was born in 1900 and served in the Merchant Navy as an Officer Cadet in the Great War and as Chief Officer then Captain in the Second World War. He was torpedoed and mined a total of five times in the two wars. His son recalls that on one occasion he was in the water off the north of Scotland in December for 12 hours. He died on board his ship in 1956.