Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Supply Assistant C. M. Zinck, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action when H.M.C.S. Ottawa was torpedoed and sank in the north Atlantic on 13 September 1940

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, all in card boxes of issue; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., ‘C. M. Zinck Supply Asst. R.C.N.V.R.’, in case of issue, extremely fine (5) £240-£280

Cyril Milford Zinck was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 16 October 1910, and served during the Second World War as a Supply Assistant in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve from 17 August 1940. He was killed in action when H.M.C.S. Ottawa, on convoy duty with Convoy ON-127, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-91 south of Greenland just before midnight on 13 September 1940, with the loss of 141 lives. Zinck is commemorated on the Halifax Memorial, Canada.

Sold with copied service papers and other research, including a group photographic image of the recipient.