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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 4

A Second War 'North Atlantic Convoy Duties' B.E.M. Group of Five to Boatswain D. Lawson, Merchant Navy
a) British Empire Medal, G.VI.R., Civil Division (David Lawson)
b) 1939-1945 Star
c) Atlantic Star
d) Africa Star with North Africa 1942-43 Bar
e) War Medal, good very fine (5)

B.E.M. London Gazette 4.1.1943 David Lawson, Boatswain, Merchant Navy.

Boatswain David Lawson, B.E.M., born Kirkcubbin, Co. Down, January 1879; served during the Second World War in the S.S. Melmore Head, on convoy duty in the North Atlantic; the Melmore Head was bombed by enemy aircraft and damaged, 26.2.1941, and subsequently torpedoed by U-225 and sunk in the North Atlantic, 28.12.1942.

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