Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram

Three: 2nd Lieutenant M. F. Fenwick, Royal Scots

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with related Army Council typed condolence slip in the name of ‘2nd Lieutenant M. F. Fenwick’, extremely fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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Michael Forster Fenwick was killed in action in Blue Pool Valley, Hong Kong on 19 December 1941, during an attempt by members of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots to relieve Brigadier Lawson’s H.Q. at the Wong Nei Chong Gap. A classics scholar from Lincoln College, Oxford, and the son of Percival Fenwick of Goring in Oxfordshire, he was 21 years of age. His name is commemorated on the Sai Wan Memorial, Hong Kong.