Name: WWII Casualty group. Commanding Officer HMT Fifeshire. 1940. Bridgewater, Devon. in Groups
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WWII Killed in action group of 3 to Sub Lieutenant John Valentine Searles-Wood. Group includes, 39-45 Star, Atlantic Star and War Medal along with wax packets, the transmittal box and casualty slip. Sub Lieutenant Searles-Wood was killed in action whilst in command of (HMT) His Majesties Trawler Fifeshire. Fifeshire was attacked and sunk on February 1940, just of the coast of Copinsay Island by German Heinkel bombers. She was lost with all hands. He is remembered on the Lowestoft Naval Memorial. The transmittal box is addressed to his father, Commander V Searles-Wood, Well Cottage, Ringmore near Kingsbridge, Devon. Born in 1919 to Valentine and Cybil in Epsom, surrey.

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