Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (SAC. S. F. Hinton (P8101731) RAF); Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (OBS (W) S S Hinton) both mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500

Simon F. Hinton and Susan Shiela Hinton were husband and wife, Mrs. Hinton serving as a Observer with 14 Group, Royal Observer Corps, from 20 August 1973.

Both were killed in the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster on 6 March 1987, when the car ferry of that name capsized shortly after leaving Zeebrugge harbour, with the loss of 193 lives, the worst peacetime civilian maritime disaster involving a British ship since the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Sold with a copied newspaper cutting containing a photograph of both taken on their wedding day, and other research.