Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Officer’s Steward 3rd Class H. F. Whymark, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when the Q-Ship H.M.S. Candytuft was torpedoed and sunk off the Algerian coast on 18 November 1917

1914-15 Star (L/7355, H. F. Whymack [sic], O.S.3, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (L.7355 H. F. Whymark. O.S.3 R.N.) good very fine (3) £80-£120

Herbert Frederick Whymark was born in Battersea, London, on 23 March 1897, and joined the Royal Navy as an Officer’s Steward 3rd Class on 14 September 1915. He was killed in action on 18 November 1917, when the Q-Ship H.M.S. Candytuft was torpedoed and sunk off the Algerian coast by U-39, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Sold with copied record of service.