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

Three: Chief Steward G. Moore, Merchant Navy, who was lost aboard the Scottish Trader when she was torpedoed south of Iceland in December 1941

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, in original addressed card forwarding box, together with official memorial scroll in the name of ‘G. Moore, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy’, in its addressed O.H.M.S. envelope, nearly extremely fine (3) £150-200

George Moore, the son of John and Bridgette Moore and the husbamd of Elizabeth Moore of Glasgow, was 29 years of age at the time of his death aboard the Scottish Trader on 6 December 1941. Bound from Philadelphia to Liverpool, this Trader Navigation Co. vessel was torpedoed south of Iceland by the U-131, commanded by Kapitan Arend Baumann - there were no survivors. As it transpired, Baumann and his crew nearly suffered a similar fate just ten days later when, in an attack on convoy HG. 76, bound from Gibraltar to the U.K., the U-131 was so badly damaged by the convoy’s Naval escort that Baumann was forced to surface and scuttle his command - with the exception of one fatality, he and his crew were picked up and taken P.O.W.