A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars

Three: Lieutenant-Commander J. T. Winn, Royal Navy, killed in action when H.M.S. Matabele was sunk by a German submarine whilst escorting a convoy to North Russia in January 1942

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal, together with Ministry of Pensions illuminated memorial scroll (Lieutenant-Commander J. T. Winn, Royal Navy) in its original envelope addressed to Mrs M. E. Winn, extremely fine (3) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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John Theodore Winn was commissioned Midshipman (Engineering) on 1 September 1929. He was serving aboard the destroyer Matabele when she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the Barents Sea on 17 January 1942, while escorting a convoy to North Russia. Twelve officers, including Commander A. C. Stanford, D.S.C., and Lieutenant-Commander J. T. Winn, and 22 ratings were killed.