Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. E.VII.R., naming erased; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (435015 Sjt. P. R. Hodgkins, R.A.M.C.)

Pair: Engineering Mechanic G. D. Moore, Royal Navy

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (SKX841650 G D Moore SM RN) additionally stamped ‘R’ for ‘Replacement’ on edge; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed, this in card box of issue, minor edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £100-140

George Douglas Moore was born on 11 April 1930. Lived 30, Simonside Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle on Tyne. He joined the Royal Navy on 15 October 1947 and served as a Stoker, Stoker Mechanic and Engineering Mechanic  1st Class. He left the RN on 15 April 1955 and died in 2001.

On 24 May 1949 Moore was serving on H.M.S. Concord stationed in the Yangtze Delta, which was tasked to board a small Shell tanker, which had been captured by Nationalist soldiers. The tanker was successfully boarded and the men and women prisoners were rescued. The Shell Company subsequently sent a sum of money to the Concord in appreciation of this rescue. At 0345hrs on 31 July H.M.S. Concord was ordered up the Yangtze to escort H.M.S. Amethyst back to safety. Amethyst had been severely damaged by communist gunfire and had been aground for three months when Captain Kerens decided to escape in the dark. H.M.S. Concord sailed up the Yangtze, met the Amethyst and in spite of the danger from enemy artillery and small arms fire successfully escorted the Amethyst to safety.

With official summary of service; letter written by ‘Doug Moore’ to the British Korean Veterans Association and a letter from the Concord Association to his widow. Also with two copies of the Concord Association Newsletter.