Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Leading Telegraphist Ronald Gordon Totterdell, R.N., H.M.S. Firedrake
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL, all unnamed as issued.

Four: Ordinary Seaman Gerald Norman Totterdell, R.N., H.M.S. Firedrake
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL, all named 'C/JX.374499. Ord.Smn.G.N. Torterdell,R.N.,H.M.S.Firedrake', both groups with named condolence slips and card boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine (8)

Extract from Dictionary of Disasters at Sea. 'The Destroyer Firedrake, Cdr. E.H. Tilden, D.S.C., was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on December 16th, 1942. Cdr. Tilden, six officers and 164 ratings were killed.'