Auction Catalogue

1 December 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 767

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£110

Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (5) (Fred Edwards; James Hosking; John Keeler; Edward Pike; Wong Tai), the third sold with original registered forwarding envelope, dated 10 June 1924, very fine and better (5) £80-100

Two Great War merchant seaman named Wong Tai, both firemen, are commemorated on the Hong Kong Memorial. One was lost aboard the S.S. Strathnairn on 15 June 1915, and the other in the S.S. Kendal Castle on 15 September 1918.

A Second World War merchant seaman named Fred Edwards, a donkeyman, was lost aboard the M.V.
Canadian Star on 18 March 1943.