A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners

A Great War Memorial Plaque issued in remembrance of H. Willoughby, Mercantile Marine, who lost his life when the S.S. Ava was torpedoed and sunk off Ireland in January 1917

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Hamilton Willoughby), extremely fine £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Hamilton Willoughby was serving as Third Officer aboard the S.S. Ava when she was torpedoed and sunk by the U-45 south-west of Ireland on 26 January 1917, and was one of 92 people who lost their lives on the same occasion. Aged 28 years, he was the son of George and Agnes Willoughby of Southport, Lancashire, and is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.