Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Ordinary Seaman Thomas James Stuckley, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Zinnia was sunk by torpedo on 23rd August 1941

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, in card box of issue addressed to his father ‘Mr. T. Stuckey [sic], 31 Gwernllwyn Terrace, Tylorstown, Rhondda, Glamorgan’, nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to H.M.S. Zinnia.

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Thomas James Stuckley, Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Zinnia, Royal Navy, died on 23 August 1941, when his ship was sunk by a German submarine with the loss of 50 men; only 2 officers and 13 men survived. Aged 23, he was the son of Thomas and Catherine Stuckley, of Tylorstown, Glamorgan. He is commemorated by name on the Chatham Naval Memorial.