Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: 1st Officer R. R. Neale, Mercantile Marine, who was lost in S.S. Ausonia when attacked by an enemy submarine on 30 May 1918

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Richard R. Neale.); Memorial Plaque (Richard Raymond Neale) extremely fine (3) £120-£160

Richard Raymond Neale, 1st Officer, Merchant Navy, was killed when the Cunard Line Ausonia was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine with the loss of 44 lives. The attack took place on 30 May 1918 when she was 620 miles off Fastnet. He was aged 42, the son of Major C. W. Neale, of Reading, Berkshire.