Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Leading Seaman I. T. Chatten, Royal Naval Reserve, who served in the Destroyer H.M.S. Matchless when involved in the sinking of the German Battleship Scharnhorst at the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December 1943

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (10226. B. I. T. Chatten. L. Smn. R.N.R.) good very fine (6) £140-£180

Isaac Thomas Chatten was born in North Shields in 1911 and joined the Royal Navy in 1932. During the Second War, as a Leading Seaman, he initially served on various shore bases before joining the M Class Destroyer, H.M.S. Matchless on 20 February 1942. Serving with this ship until August 1944, he was awarded his Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 17 November 1943, and the following month took part in the sinking of the German Battleship Scharnhorst, which was sunk at the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December 1943. Subsequently serving in H.M.S. Wagtail between November 1944 and November 1945, Chatten left the Royal Naval Reserve in 1946.

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