Special Collections

Sold between 2 March & 1 December 2004

2 parts

.

Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee

Oliver Stirling Lee

Lot

№ 230

.

1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£800

Pair: Chief Yeoman R. G. Medhurst, Royal Navy

South Atlantic 1982
, with rosette (A.L.R.O. (T.) D.158737S H.M.S. Fearless); Gulf 1990-91, no clasp (C.Y. D.158737S R.N.), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (2) £400-500

In her capacity as a key command ship in the Falklands War, the amphibious assault ship Fearless, commanded by Captain E. J. S. Larken, D.S.O., was frequently the target of enemy aircraft. Although hit by cannon fire on at least one occasion, she did not suffer any serious damage, and was able to carry out various sorties from the anchorage at San Carlos, including the insertion and recovery of landing craft at San Salvador and Fitzroy.