Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Acting Leading Telegraphist H. J. R. Wilson, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Saumarez was mined in the Corfu Channel off the Albanian coast on 22 October 1946

France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (D/JX 245788 H. J. R. Wilson. A/L. Tel. R.N.), with named Admiralty enclosure, extremely fine and a scarce group with both wartime and peacetime named condolence slips (4) £300-£400

Henry John Robert Trotter Wilson was killed in action during the Corfu Channel Incident when H.M.S. Saumarez struck an Albanian mine in the Corfu Channel on 22 October 1946; 26 of the crew of the Saumarez were killed in the explosion, including Wilson. The Channel was supposed to be mine free, and contemporary evidence suggests that the mines had been deliberately laid by the Albanians. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.