Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Seaman E. Davies, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, killed when the steamship ‘Goathland’ was torpedoed by a German U-boat in July 1917
1914-15 Star Trio (Smn., M.F.A.) extremely fine (3) £35-45

Evan Lewis Davies was born at Abercarne, Monmouthshire, and was killed aboard the steamship Goathland when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine ten miles south of Belle Ile on 4th July 1917. Twenty-one men, including the captain, were killed. He is commemorated on the Mercantile Marine Memorial, Tower Hill, London.