Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Leading Telegraphist C. E. Boyce, Royal Navy, killed in action, H.M.S. Gladiolus, 21 October 1941

British War and Victory Medals (J.44741 Tel. R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (J.44741 L. Tel., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue (J.44741 L. Tel., H.M.S. Effingham) fine and better (7) £250-300

Leading Telegraphist Charles Ernest Boyce was killed in action when serving on the corvette H.M.S. Gladiolus on 21 October 1941, aged 41 years. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in the North Atlantic. Of those on board, 5 officers and 59 ratings were killed. H.M.S. Gladiolus had sunk the submarine U-26 on 30 June 1940 and had ‘shared’ in the sinking of U-556 on 27 June 1941. Boyce was the son of John Charles and Florrie Boyce, and husband of Naomi Mills Boyce, of Portland, Dorsetshire.