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15 September 2021

Hammer Price:
£170

A Second War B.E.M. awarded to Chief Engineman T. H. Morgan

British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ch. Engmn. Thomas H. Morgan, T.124.) good very fine £200-£260

B.E.M. (Military) London Gazette 11 July 1940: ‘In recognition of services during the war - T.124 Thomas H. Morgan, Chief Engineman, H.M. Trawler Kingston-Beryl.’

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Kingston-Beryl was a trawler taken over by the Admiralty on 26 August 1939 for anti-submarine duties with the Royal Naval Patrol Service. She was sunk by a mine on Christmas Day 1943 north-west of Islay, Scotland.