Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Seven: Lieutenant T. F. Browell, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (M. 6260 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Soviet 40th Anniversary Medal 1945-85, mounted as worn excepting the last, the first officially corrected, and, as with the second, with contact wear and polished, good fine, the remainder good very fine (7) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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Browell, who was appointed a Warrant Engineer in July 1933, joined the cruiser H.M.S. Naiad in December 1939. The Navy List corrected to January 1942 still has him serving in the same appointment, so it seems very likely he was aboard the Naiad when she was torpedoed and sunk by the U-565 south of Crete on 11 March 1942 - two officers and 75 ratings were killed and one officer wounded. Advanced to Commissioned Engineer in the following month, Browell is believed to have served aboard the flotilla leader Montrose, and ended the War as an Acting Lieutenant (E.) in the Orwell - both of these destroyers held the Battle Honour for “Arctic 1942-43”, but it was in the first named that he is believed to have qualified for his Soviet 40th Anniversary Medal.