Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: J. Fagg, Mercantile Marine, who survived his fishing boat being torpedoed and sunk off the Kent coast in March 1917
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (James Fagg) good very fine

Pair: A. J. Day, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Alfred J. Day) with Board of Trade Authority to Wear form, dated 13 November 1919, and signed by the recipient; and Board of Trade condolence enclosure for the actual medals, named to the recipient’s widow, and dated 24 February 1928, extremely fine

Three: C. W. Rooke, Mercantile Marine and Royal Army Medical Corps
British War Medal 1914-20 (62918 Pte. C. Rooke. R.A.M.C.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Charles W. Rooke.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (62918 Pte. C. Rooke. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £100-£140

James Fagg, a fisherman from Ramsgate, was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1887 and served with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. He survived his fishing boat being torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat off the Kent coast in March 1917 (Thanet Advertiser, 31 March 1917 refers).