Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Telegraphist C. E. Clark, Royal Navy, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War off Norway on 10 June 1940

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (K.112675 C. E. Clark. L. Tel. H.M.S. Mercury.) good very fine (4) £100-£140

Charles Edward Clark was born at Brighton, Sussex, on 18 June 1909 and commenced his naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Ganges on 19 December 1924, with the service number J.112675, being appointed a Boy Telegrapher in H.M.S. Curacoa on 23 April 1926. He was advanced to Ordinary Telegrapher on 18 June 1927 and Telegrapher in March 1928, and was promoted to Acting Leading Telegrapher on 21 November 1939 when serving in H.M.S. Victory I.

Clark was serving as Leading Telegrapher in the British troop transport H.M.S. Vandyck when it was sunk on 10 June 1940, by Luftwaffe dive bombers, off Andenes, Narvik, while assisting in the evacuation of Norway during Operation Alphabet. Two officers and five ratings were killed, and 29 officers and 132 ratings, including Clark, were captured and taken Prisoner of War. He was held at Stalag 9C, Bad Sulza, Mulhausen, Germany for the remainder of the War, until being repatriated to Portsmouth in May 1945. He was awarded the Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in November 1945, and was invalided Permanently Unfit for Naval Service in June 1947.

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