CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 820
Four: attributed to Petty Officer G. B. Colclough, Royal Navy, killed in action serving aboard H.M.S. Galatea, 15 December 1941
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (4) £60-80
The cruiser Galatea was a unit of the 15th Cruiser Squadron operating in the Mediterranean. On the night of 14 December 1941, the squadron was returning to Alexandria after an unsuccessful search for an enemy convoy, when it was attacked by German dive bombers. The attack persisted for some seven hours. Then, just before midnight the Galatea became the target of the German submarine U-557 and was hit by two torpedoes in quick succession. Within three minutes the cruiser turned over and sank, taking with her the captain, 22 other officers and 447 ratings. About 100 survivors were picked up by the destroyers Griffin and Hotspur. Petty Officer Colclough was amongst those killed. His name is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
With Admiralty condolence slip named to ‘Geoffrey Beckett Colclough’ - this additionally and more recently inscribed, ‘Petty officer in H.M.S. Galatea torpedoed off Crete’; with card forwarding box (address label removed); postcard of H.M.S. Galatea; P.O. cloth badge, and copied research.
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Four: attributed to Able Seaman Ernest Sykes, Royal Navy, killed in action serving aboard H.M.S. Egret, 27 August 1943
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; WARMEDAL 1939-45, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (4)
£60-80
The sloop Egret was sunk by a German glider bomb off the coast of N.W. Spain on 27 August 1943. Six officers and 188 ratings were killed. Amongst those lost was Able Seaman Ernest Sykes, aged 36 years. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. He was the son of William and Rose Sykes and the husband of Mary Violet Marguerite Sykes of East Ham, Essex.
With Admiralty condolence slip named to ‘Ernest Sykes’; named commemorative scroll (damaged); two photographs of the recipient; one group photograph, and three photographs of H.M.S. Egret.
822 Five: Able Seaman W. Ryan, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR ; PACIFIC STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (JX-140968 A.B., H.M.S. Nereide) contact marks, about very fine (5)
£80-100 H.M.S. Nereide was a modified Black Swan Class sloop, launched on 29 January 1944. 823 Three: attributed to Sergeant J. F. Bente, Royal Air Force, killed in action 18 December 1941
1939-45 STAR; AIR CREW EUROPE STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, each privately impressed, ‘564087 Sgt. J. F. Bente R.A.F.’, nearly extremely fine (3)
£120-160
Sergeant John Francis Bente, No. 15 Squadron R.A.F., was killed in action on 18 December 1941 in an attack on enemy battle cruisers anchored at Brest. His name is commemorated on the Runnymede memorial. He was the son of Francis George and Emily Bente of Newport, Monmouthshire. With R.A.F. cloth wings and metal cap badge and some copied research and photocopied medal slip.
824
Seven: Warrant Officer Class 1 H. Green, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (4394363 Cpl., R.A.O.C.); ARMY L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (4394363 W.O. Cl. 1, R.A.O.C.) mounted as worn; ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, E.II.R., 2nd issue (4394363 W.O. Cl. 1, RAOC.) very fine (7)
£240-280 825 Seven: Lieutenant A. G. Kneen, Royal Corps of Signals
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 1st Army; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, M.I.D. oakleaf, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Lt., R. Sigs.); ARMY EMERGENCY RESERVE DECORATION, E.II.R., reverse officially dated, ‘1958’, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of miniature dress medals, slight contact marks, very fine and better (14)
£200-250 M.I.D. London Gazette 11 January 1945 (Italy) ‘Cpl., Royal Corps of Signals.’
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