Lot Archive

Lot

№ 299

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£70

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (LX. 20569 E. A. George, P.O. Std., H.M.S. Exmoor) extremely fine £60-80

Two destroyers named H.M.S. Exmoor saw service in the 1939-45 War, the first of them being sunk defending an East Coast convoy in February 1941, and the second winning six Battle Honours for actions in the Mediterranean and Aegean, including those for the Sicily and Salerno landings in 1943.