HMS Cornwall Interest:- A Second World War Group of Five Medals, awarded to Electrical Lieutenant Norman Richard Rice R.N.V.R., comprising 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Burma Star with PACIFIC clasp, Defence and War Medals, swing mounted as worn, together with the medal slip and the miniatures, also, a photograph of the recipient in uniform, a programme for the Launch of HMS Cornwall by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales on 14th October 1985 and photographs of the Princess at Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, an H.M.S. Commissioning Book of 1988, with black leather cloth binding, related ephemera including two VIP invitations for the commissioning (attended by the Sponsor, H.R.H The Princess of Wales) to Norman R Rice - the President of the HMS Cornwall 1939-42 Association, and his wife, with his lapel badge, personal photographs and slides, and newspaper cuttings of the event, his Hornby Railways Company Writing Pad, a die cast model of HMS Cornwall and a framed dedication for a 1981 reunion of the surviving crew of the German Auxiliary Cruiser H-K Pinguin which had been sunk by HMS Cornwall on 8th May 1941 Footnote:- Father of the vendor, Norman Richard Rice was serving with the Eastern Fleet on board HMS Cornwall when it was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon on 5th April 1942, an account of which is included in this lot. Norman and the other survivors were rescued on 6th April at 1800 hours by H.M.Ships Enterprise, Paladin and Panther.