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Sold between 19 July & 1 March 2017

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The Julian Johnson Collection

Julian Johnson, FRGS

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№ 883

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2 March 2017

Hammer Price:
£2,000

The Mercantile Marine War Medal to Second Officer Percy Hefford, the most senior officer of the Bridge staff to drown when the S.S. Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915

Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Percy Hefford) extremely fine £800-1000

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Provenance: Nowell Collection, D.N.W. June 2009.

Percy Hefford was Second Officer on board the S.S. Lusitania and was drowned on 7 May 1915, aged 34, when the Cunard liner was torpedoed by the German submarine U.20 off the Old Head of Kinsale, sinking in 15 minutes with the loss of 1198 lives. He was the most senior member of the Bridge staff to drown.