23rd Mar, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
3020
A Naval General Service Medal 1909-62, with clasp PALESTINE 1945-48, awarded to OD/SKX 832096 O.(Oliver) A.(Alfred)M.(Maynard) BRIDGES S.M. R.N., together with medal award slip, printed research material, Birth and Death Certificates and copy of Armed Forces Memorial Roll of Honour.
Footnote:- Oliver Alfred Maynard Bridges was killed on 19.4.1951 when H.M.S. Affray, the submarine on which he was serving as Stoker Mechanic, was involved in the worst submarine accident since the Second World War.
H.M.S. Affray left Portsmouth and submerged 30 miles south of the Isle of Wight whilst on a practise war patrol between Portsmouth and Falmouth. After an investigation, the Royal Navy concluded that the submarine sank because the snort mask - the tube through which the diesel engine "breathed" while steaming at periscope depth - snapped because of metal fatigue. Another theory was that a battery had exploded. The submarine was never recovered because of the depth of water it had sunk in and the distance from the coast made a full salvage operation impossible
Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 23rd Mar, 2022
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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