Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Pair: Henry Turney, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Henry Turney)

Three: Storekeeper Robert Henry Turney, Naval Auxiliary Personnel, killed in action, 15 November 1942
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, good very fine (5) £60-80

Storekeeper Robert Henry Turney, Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy) was killed in action when the escort aircraft carrier H.M.S. Avenger was torpedoed and sunk by the U-155 off Gibraltar on 15 November 1942. Some 67 officers and 438 ratings were lost in the sinking, the single largest loss sustained by the Royal Navy during the course of the North African landings. Robert Henry Turney was the son of Henry and Mary Ann Turney of Southampton.

W.W.2 medals in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs M. A. Turney, 18 West End Road, Bitterne, Southampton’.