Auction Catalogue

17 September 2004

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 271

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17 September 2004

Hammer Price:
£180

Three: Engineman W. H. Gowing, Royal Naval Patrol Service

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45,
all privately inscribed “Boots-style” ‘LT./KX 101618 W. H. Gowing, Engmn., R.N.P.S.’, good very fine and better (3)

Three: Able Seaman H.G. Cook, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45,
all privately engraved ‘C/SSX. 29707 A.Bs H. G. Cook, R.N.’, together with Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Harold Geoffrey Cook’, good very fine and better (6)

£40-60

William Henry Gowing was killed in H.M. drifter Thistle on 8 May 1940, when that vessel was mined off Lowestoft. He left a widow who was resident at Budock, Cornwall.

Harold Geoffrey Cook was killed in the Admiralty-requisitioned ocean boarding vessel H.M.S.
Registan on 27 May 1941, during the course of an enemy air attack that left over 25 crew members dead. Set on fire and abandoned, the Registan was later taken in tow and beached at Falmouth.