Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant B. P. Hoare, Royal Army Service Corps, who was killed in action during the evacuation of Crete, 2 June 1941

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. M. W. Hoare, 1 Chapel Road, Sarisbury Green, Southampton, Hants.’, extremely fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties.

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Brendan Patrick Hoare served during the Second World War as a Sergeant in 231 Reserve Motor Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps, and was killed in action during the evacuation of Crete; he was in one of the last groups evacuated from the island on the Norwegian Whaler Kos XXII, which was bombed and sunk south of Crete on 2 June 1941.

Hoare was aged 25 at the time of his death. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial, Greece. His medals were sent to his father Mr. M. W. Hoare.