A Small Collection of Medals to the Merchant Navy

A Second World War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain R. H. Woodrow, Merchant Navy
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Robert H. Woodrow), officially re-impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine and better (7) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Merchant Navy.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 9 January 1946.

Robert Hilton Woodrow, who was born in South Shields in November 1887, served as a Master throughout the 1939-45 War, and was awarded his O.B.E. in respect of services in the S.S. Silversandal from October 1943 until July 1945; sold with his original Minister of Transport campaign award forwarding slip and a quantity of research, including confirmation of his 1939-45 campaign award entitlement - but the whereabouts of his British War Medal 1914-20 remains unknown.