Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant E. Halloway, Royal Naval Reserve, who was permanently blinded and taken prisoner of War when his ship, the S.S. Craftsman, was sunk by a German raider in the mid-Atlantic on 9 April 1941

1914-15 Star (Lieut. E. Halloway, R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. Halloway. R.N.R.) in flattened named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £200-£240

Ernest Halloway was born in Maryport on 22 August 1880 and served in the Mercantile Marine. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve on 15 December 1914 and saw active service throughout the Great War in the mine-carrier H.M.S. Harden. He saw further service during the Second World War as Captain of the S.S. Craftsman, and was taken Prisoner of War on 9 April 1941, when the Craftsman was destroyed by a German surface raider 800 miles west of Dakar, Senegal, in the mid-Atlantic- during the 10 minute gun battle Holloway was blinded by flying sand from sandbags he had deployed on the bridge, along with wood splinters. Held for the remainder of the War in various German P.O.W. Hospitals, he was repatriated at the end of the War, and died in 1952.

Sold with copied research, including a detailed account of the loss of the Craftsman.