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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 476

British Empire Medal, G.VI.R, Civil Division (John Alexander Smith), good very fine Estimate £ 100-140 B.E.M. London Gazette 23.8.1940 John Alexander Smith, Assitant Steward, S.S. Balteako (Anglo-Latvian Shipping Company, Ltd., London), ´During an air raid on Harstad, near Narvik, a splinter of a bomb hit the bowman of H.M.S. Delight´s motor-boat, which was alongside Balteako drawing provisions. Being holed, Balteako was beached and the motor-boat went adrift. J.A. Smith and a naval rating lowered themselves by a rope into a skiff. Although the raid was still in progress, they managed to reach the motor-boat before the skiff, which was also damaged, sank. The attempt at the rescue was made against the advice of Balteako´s Officers. Unfortunately, the man they were trying to help was found to be dead.´

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