Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Three: Engineman W. H. Gowing, Royal Naval Patrol Service

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, all privately inscribed “Boots-style” ‘LT./KX 101618 W. H. Gowing, Engmn., R.N.P.S.’, good very fine and better (3)

Three: Able Seaman H.G. Cook, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, all privately engraved ‘C/SSX. 29707 A.Bs H. G. Cook, R.N.’, together with Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Harold Geoffrey Cook’, good very fine and better (6)

£40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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William Henry Gowing was killed in H.M. drifter Thistle on 8 May 1940, when that vessel was mined off Lowestoft. He left a widow who was resident at Budock, Cornwall.

Harold Geoffrey Cook was killed in the Admiralty-requisitioned ocean boarding vessel H.M.S. Registan on 27 May 1941, during the course of an enemy air attack that left over 25 crew members dead. Set on fire and abandoned, the Registan was later taken in tow and beached at Falmouth.