Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Seaman Radar Operator A. J. Brock, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Admiralty enclosure and named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. A. J. Brock, Pillmere Gardens, Burraton, Saltash, Cornwall’, mounted for wear; together with the recipient’s cloth riband bar, nearly extremely fine

Three: Attributed to Ordinary Seaman H. G. Eddleston, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Duchess was accidentally rammed by H.M.S. Barham in thick fog off the Mull of Kintyre on 12 December 1939
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. F. Eddleston, Flat 6, Cardigan Court, Cardigan Road, Leeds 6, Yorks’, extremely fine (7) £80-£100

Arthur John Brock was born in Canada on 24 January 1926 and served during the Second World War as a Radar Operator in H.M.S. Chaser.

Sold with a large number of photographs of the recipient’s deployment in the Philippines and at the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong.

Herbert Griffith Eddleston was born on 4 September 1920 and served during the Second World War as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Duchess. He was killed at sea when Duchess, escorting the battleship H.M.S. Barham back to the British isles, was accidentally rammed by the latter vessel in thick fog off the Mull of Kintyre on 12 December 1939, and sank with heavy loss of life. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

Sold with a copy Memorial Scroll and copy Admiralty enclosure; and a copy of the book ‘Collision in the Night - the Sinking of H.M.S. Duchess’, by Richard Jones.

Note: The recipient’s entitlement to the Atlantic Star is unconfirmed.