Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: 1st Radio Officer H. J. Workman, Merchant Navy, who died on active service in the S.S. Clan MacTaggart in May 1945

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with original Minister of Transport condolence slip in the name of ‘Herbert John Workman’, extremely fine (5) £40-60

Herbert John Workman died on active service in the S.S. Clan MacTaggart on 9 May 1945 and is commemorated at Cheltenham Crematorium. The son of Charles and Catherine Workman, he was 44 years of age. His ship’s predecessor, the first Clan MacTaggart, had been torpedoed about 250 miles south-west of the Azores in November 1942.