Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant E. Mortimore, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, together with Illuminated Memorial Scroll (Lieutenant, Royal Engineers), two portrait photographs and a news cutting, extremely fine (4) £80-100

Lieutenant Eric Mortimore was reported missing, believed killed, on 8 June 1944, two days after the D-Day landings. He was married to Miss Molly Coysh of Teignmouth, Devon, and had a little girl aged 5 years. He joined the Royal Engineers as a Private in 1940, worked his way up to Sergeant and was offered a commission in 1942. He is commemorated by name on the Bayeux Memorial.