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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 496

Family group;

Three: Ordinary Seaman R. T. Julian, Royal Navy, who was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Itchen on 23 September 1943 when she was sunk by U-666

1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, good very fine

Pair: Driver H. T. Julian, Royal Artillery, who was killed in the London Blitz on 8 October 1940

British War and Victory Medals (L-21038 Dvr. H. T. Julian. R.A.), good very fine (5)

Ronald Thomas Julian served as an Ordinary Seaman and was killed in action on 23 September 1943 whilst serving aboard Itchen and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. He was the son of Henry Thomas Julian and Margaret Smith Julian of New Cross, London.

Itchen was a Frigate completed in 1942 and was sunk on 23 September 1943 by U-666.

Henry Thomas Julian first served with the Royal Field Artillery in Salonika between 15 March - 7 September 1916 and then returned Home and served in France from 16 September 1918 - 19 January 1919 being finally discharged on 31 March 1920. His papers show that he contracted Malaria in June 1916 and this remained with him throughout his service hence his limited time in France on his return.

By the time of the Second World War he was living with his wife at 17 Barriedale, New Cross. Julian was injured 5 October 1940, at Lewisham High Road and died on 8 October 1940 at South Eastern Hospital. He was 50 and is buried in the Deptford Cemetery (Civilian War Dead).


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£210

Starting price
£70