South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (ALRO(T) T C Newell, D1662778 HMS Broadsword) extremely fine £550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Acting out her unenvious role as “carrier goalkeeper” throughout the War, the type 22 frigate H.M.S. Broadsword, commanded by Captain W. R. Canning, D.S.O., R.N., witnessed a considerable amount of action. She was operating alongside the Coventry at the time of her demise and assisted in the rescue operation although herself under heavy fire - an enemy bomb passed through her side and thence out of the Flight Deck, demolishing a helicopter on the way but luckily failing to detonate. She had earlier sustained 14 casualties when hit by cannon fire from a Dagger fighter-bomber on the first day of the amphibious landings.