Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (C/KX 101699 T. Main. Sto. Mech. R.N.) very fine £800-£1,200

‘The troopship Empire Halladale reached Liverpool to-day with two of the wounded from the Yangtse River battle - Stoker Thomas Main (26), Newcastle, who received shrapnel wounds while serving in H.M.S. London, and Able Seaman Eric Rimington (20), Leicester, who received multiple gunshot wounds while serving in the Amethyst. The Empire Halladale also carried 1,000 Servicemen and 268 civilian passengers, including some Service families and refugees from Shanghai.’ (copied news cutting from the Yorkshire Evening Post of August 4, 1949, refers).