Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Master T. A. Russell, Mercantile Marine, who died on 8 September 1942

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll ‘T. A. Russell, Master, Merchant Navy’, this last in OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. T. M. Russell, 3 Milton Grove, North Shields, Northumberland’, extremely fine (3) £60-£80

Thomas Arthur Russell was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 2 December 1889 ands served during both the Great War and the Second World War in the Mercantile Marine. He died in service on 8 September 1942, whilst in command of the S.S. Easton, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Tynemouth (Preston) Cemetery.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient, and other research.