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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 597

Three: Lieutenant A. P. H. Tracy, Royal Navy, who was killed in a crash landing at sea on 12 December 1947

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named condolence slip, contact marks, nearly very fine (3)

Anthony Peter Hanbury Tracy was born at Brixton, London, on 12 July 1924. Enlisting on 5 April 1943 he was promoted Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 19 May 1944 while training in Canada. Posted to the escort carrier H.M.S. Emperor on 25 February 1945 with the East Indies Fleet, flying hellcats. When Emperor returned to Britain Tracy remained in the East, being posted to H.M.S. Glory on 22 July 1946. Promoted Lieutenant with this unit on 19 November he was commended on 4 December 1946 for performing a successful emergency landing at ENAS Sambawang Singapore.

Stationed at H.M.S. Daedalus, the Fleet Air Arm Seaplane base at Lee-On-Solent, with 771 Squadron on 27 November 1947. Tracy was killed while flying with this unit on 12 December 1947 when his Seafire LA 489 crashed into the sea off Colshot, Hampshire; sold together with copied research including service records, Commonwealth War Graves records and information on H.M.S. Emperor.

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£85

Starting price
£70