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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 111

Five: Captain E.J. Garlick, Merchant Navy British War Medal (Edwin J. Garlick); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Edwin J. Garlick); 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal, the Second War awards all privately impressed ´Capt. E.J. Garlick. M.N.´, extremely fine, with the following documents &c.: - Named Ministry of Transport enclosure for the Second War awards - The recipient´s Continuous Certificate of Discharge - Letter to the recipient from the passengers aboard the Bristol City, thanking him for their safe deliverance from the perils of enemy submarines, dated 10.9.1939 - Ten letters of recommendation - Portrait photograph of the recipient (5) Estimate £ 70-90 Captain Edwin John Garlick, born Bristol, 1900; served with the Merchant Navy aboard the S.S. Toronto City during the Second World War; killed in action, 2.7.1941, when his vessel was torpedoed by an enemy submarine in the North Atlantic whilst bound for St. John´s, Newfoundland; Garlick is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.

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