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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 106

Six: Able Seaman E. Dalton, Royal Navy, Killed in Action, 9.6.1940, when H.M.S. Ardent Was Sunk by the German Battle Cruisers Scharnhost and Gneisenau 1914-15 Star (J.37718, E. Dalton. Ord., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.37718 E. Dalton. A.B. R.N.); 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal, the Second War awards all privately impressed ´D/JX 165895 E. Dalton. A.B. R.N.´, contact marks, nearly very fine, the Second War awards nearly extremely fine, with named condolence slip (6) Estimate £ 110-140 D/JX 165895 Able Seaman Earl Dalton, born Oldham, Lancashire, September 1897; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, serving in H.M.S. Vivid, 10.4.1915; Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Roxburgh, 28.9.1915; promoted Able Seaman, 1.11.1916; discharged, 27.9.1927, after 12 years´ Service, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve; served during the Second World War in H.M.S. Ardent; killed in action, 9.6.1940, when the Ardent was sunk alongside H.M.S. Acasta and Glorious by the German Battle Cruisers Scharnhost and Gneisenau off Norway with the loss of 1,519 lives; Dalton is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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