Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Second Radio Officer K. P. J. Andersen, Merchant Navy, who lost his life when the M.V. Amerika was torpedoed and sunk in April 1943

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, copy clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45, together with the recipient’s Buckingham Palace Memorial Scroll, in the name of ‘K. P. J. Andersen, Second Radio Officer, Merchant Navy’, and his Minister of War condolence slip in the name of ‘Kjeld Peter Johannes Andersen’, extremely fine (4)
£80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Kjeld Peter Johannes Andersen, who was born in Denmark in January 1904, was serving as a Second Radio Officer aboard the M.V. Amerika in North Atlantic convoy HX 234 in April 1943, when, on the night of 21st, the liner was hit by two torpedoes from the U-306 and went down within 30 minutes. She had on board 73 crew, 15 D.E.M.S. gunners and 53 R.C.A.F. personnel, of whom 42 crew, including Andersen, seven gunners and 37 Canadians perished; sold with a file of research, including a copy of the Master’s official report for events of the 21 April 1943.