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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 246

(x) Pair: Alan Appleton, Mercantile Marine, who survived the sinking of the freight ship Dora Isabel in 1943

British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals 1914-18 (Alan Appleton), very fine (2)

Alan Appleton was born at Hull, Yorkshire on 23 November 1873. He lived with his grandparents at 17 All Saints Street, Sculcoates, becoming a steamship engine maker's apprentice. The 1911 census shows him as a Fitter's Engineer, living at 29 Bridlington Street with a wife and daughter. He served as an Engineer Officer with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War, and his medal was issued to him on 12 September 1919. In 1921 he was appointed Chief Engineer aboard the steamship S.E. Calvert. He served as a 2nd Engineer in the Second World War, and was aboard the freight ship Dora Isabel on 2 November 1943, when she was torpedoed en route from Blyth to Portsmouth. Appleton survived this ordeal; sold with medal confirmation.

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£40

Starting price
£30