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

Six: Master P. R. Winship, Merchant Navy who lost his life on the occasion of the S.S. Empire Dace being mined off Greece in December 1944

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (Percy R. Winship); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last in their original addressed card forwarding box, together with the recipient’s Buckingham Palace Memorial Scroll in the name of ‘P. R. Winship, Master, Merchant Navy’, and Minister of Transport condolence slip in the name of ‘Percy Robert Winship’, the first with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine and better (6)
£140-180

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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Percy Robert Winship was born in Bournemouth in July 1901, and served as an Apprentice in the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. His subsequent career in the 1939-45 War was largely associated with tugs, including his command of the Empire Ben off Normandy in the summer of 1944.

Next appointed to the command of the Empire Dace, he was killed on the occasion of her being mined off Greece on 1 December 1944; sold with a file of research.