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

Three: Chief Engineer Officer C. A. Powell, Merchant Navy, who lost his life on the occasion the S.S. Tredinnick was torpedoed and sunk in March 1942

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with the recipient’s Minister of Transport condolence slip in the name of ‘Clifford A. Powell’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

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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Charles Austin Powell, who was born in Monmouthshire in 1902, first went to sea as a Fourth Engineer aboard the S.S. Fotina in November 1923. Having then served in the Trevarrack and Treverbyn in 1939-41, he joined his final ship, the Tredinnick, as Chief Engineer Officer in May of the latter year. Bound for Table Bay and Bombay from New York in March 1942, the Tredinnick was never heard of again - though certain sources credit her demise to the Italian submarine Calvi on the 25th. Powell, who left a widow, Mary, of Barry, Glamorgan, is commemorated on the Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill, London; sold with further details.