A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War

Three: Third Officer C. E. Brocklesby, Merchant Navy, among those killed when his ship the S.S. Tregarthen was torpedoed in June 1941

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original addressed card forwarding box, one side further inscribed ‘CRS 113 118028’, together with related Minister of Transport condolence slip in the name of ‘Charles E. Brocklesby’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Charles Ernest Brocklesby died on 6 June 1941 when the S.S. Tregarthen, bound from Cardiff to Jamaica, was attacked by the U-48, commanded by top U-Boat ace Kapitan Leutnant Herbert Schultze, N.N.W. of the Azores - there were no survivors. His ship had earlier survived an enemy aircraft attack on 20 January, when bound from St. John’s, Brunswick. The son of John and Sarah Brocklesby of Withernsea, Yorkshire, he was 22 years old, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.