Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant P. A. Bingham Powell, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Vortigern was torpedoed and sunk in North Sea on 15 March 1942

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Patrick Alex Bingham Powell was born in Portsmouth in 1918, the son of Vice-Admiral George Bingham Powell, C.M.G. and followed his father into the Royal Navy, entering Dartmouth in 1931. Appointed Lieutenant in 1938, he was killed in action when the destroyer H.M.S. Vortigern, on convoy duty in the North Sea, was attached by German motor torpedo boats during the night of 14-15 March 1942, and was hit by two torpedoes and sunk in the early hours of 15 March 1942, with the loss of seven officers and 140 ratings. His body was recovered and he is buried in Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery, Suffolk.

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