Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Ordinary Seaman R. G. Jolly, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Tweed was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-305 in the north Atlantic on 7 January 1944

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. C. E. Jolly, 2 Windgap Lane, Haughley, Stowmarket, Suffolk’, extremely fine (3) £80-£120

Reginald George Jolly was born at Crowfield, Suffolk, on 24 June 1925, and served during the Second World War as an Ordinary Seaman in the Royal Navy from April 1943. He was killed in action when H.M.S. Tweed was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-305 in the north Atlantic on 7 January 1944, whilst serving with Convoy MK34, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

His medals were issued to the recipient’s father, Mr. Cecil Edward Jolly.

Sold together with named Buckingham Palace Condolence letter; Certificate of the Inspector of Seamen’s Wills; an original photograph of the recipient and newspaper cutting announcing his death; and copied research.