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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 492

A Second World War and Yangtze group of four awarded to Joiner P. C. Heighway, Royal Navy, who was among those evacuated - under a murderous fire - from H.M.S. Amethyst to Rose Island on 20 April 1949

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, Yangtze 1949, Malaya (D/MX. 510381 P. C. Heighway, Jnr. 3, R.N.), good very fine (4)

Percy C. Heighway was a native of Roby, Liverpool.

In common with his fellow Rose Island evacuees, he travelled over land to Shanghai and rejoined Amethyst in Hong Kong, in time for her journey home.


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