Three: Able Seaman S. F. Ford, Royal Navy, who was wounded by shrapnel aboard H.M.S. Consort during the Yangtze incident on 20 April 1949

Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, Yangtze 1949, Malaya (D/SSX. 847588 S. Ford, Ord. Smn., R.N.); Korea 1950-53 (D/SSX. 847588 S. F. Ford, A.B., R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, good very fine and better (3) £1000-1200

The destroyer H.M.S. Consort, under Commander Ian Roberston, D.S.C., was guardship at Nanking, the Chinese Nationalist capital, in April 1949 and, on receiving news of Amethyst’s plight on the 20th, quickly set off down the Yangtze. On reaching Amethyst in the early afternoon, Consort made three unsuccessful attempts to lend assistance, including an aborted tow, and sustained considerable damage and 30 casualties in the process, thereby necessitating her onward journey to the open sea - in fact eight of her crew were killed in action and another died of wounds. Robertson was awarded the D.S.O., two of his crew D.S.Ms, and another four were mentioned in despatches.