Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Second Engineer Officer D. Browning, Mercantile Marine, who died whilst serving aboard the S.S. Fort Bellingham on 26 January 1944

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Ministry of Transport enclosure, extremely fine (5) £60-£80

David Browning was born in Thornliebank, Scotland, on 19 April 1911. He joined the Merchant Navy in 1937 and witnessed initial service aboard the Cameronia, before transferring to the British Steam Merchant Fort Bellingham. A straggler of convoy JW-56A, the Fort Bellingham was singled out and sunk in the Barents Sea by a torpedo from U-957. 36 men died from a complement of 73, with Browning’s service record additionally annotated ‘presumed drowned’. He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.

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