A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War

Three: Chief Engineer H. Botshi, Merchant Navy, among those killed by an enemy aircraft attack on the S.S. Millisle in March 1941

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original addressed card forwarding box, one side inscribed ‘(CRS 113) 104367’, together with related Minister of Transport condolence slip in the name of ‘Henry Botshi’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Henry Botshi was killed on the occasion the S.S. Millisle was bombed and sunk by enemy aircraft two miles east of Helwick light vessel in the Bristol Channel on 21 March 1941 - of her crew of 12 and a gunner, only two survived. He was 64 years old, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial; the above described forwarding box is addressed to ‘Mrs. J. L. Botshi, 3 Church Place, Donaghadee, Co. Down, Northern Ireland’.