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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 217

Seven: Acting Leading Stoker A. Davenport, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (KX. 79428 F. Davenport, Sto. 1, R.N.); 1939-45; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (KX. 79428 F. Davenport, A./L. Sto., H.M.S. Ambrose), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (7)

Frank Davenport was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in April 1910 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in August 1928. His subsequent award of the L.S. & G.C. Medal was issued to him in H.M.S. Ambrose in August 1943. A depot ship to the 9th Submarine Flotilla at Dundee, Ambrose catered for all manner of gallant guests, from submariners and commandos to S.O.E. and Norwegian resistance operatives: a total of 296 sailors and commandos operating from the base were killed in action. For a series of evocative wartime drawings of Ambrose and her crew, and related history, see:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/7564


http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/HMSAmbrose





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