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Four: Able Seaman F. W. Mayston, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S., G.VI.R., 1st issue (SS. 8000 (CH. B. 17623) A.B., R.F.R.), the last with traces of old lacquer, otherwise extremely fine (4) £80-100
Frederick William Mayston was serving in the corvette H.M.S. Picotee on 12 August 1941, when she was torpedoed and sunk by the U-568 off Iceland. Her captain, Lieutenant R. A. Harrison, R.N.R., and 63 other crew members, including Mayston, were lost. Aged 41 years, he left a widow resident at Bury St. Edmunds, Norfolk.
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