Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Chief Petty Officer N. P. Taylor, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX. 130032 C.P.O., H.M.S. Zealous), contact wear and edge bruising, about very fine or better (7) £80-100

The destroyer H.M.S. Zealous won Battle Honours for “Norway 1945” and “Arctic 1945”. Sold to the Israeli Navy in 1955, she was sunk by an Egyptian anti-ship missile in the following year, the first warship to be lost by this method.