A FIRST WORLD WAR FAMILY GROUP COMPRISING A MERCANTILE MARIN...

Hammer

£200

A FIRST WORLD WAR FAMILY GROUP COMPRISING A MERCANTILE MARINE PAIR AND PAIR WITH MEMORIAL PLAQUE, ALSO TO THE MERCANTILE MARINE. A Great War Pair comprising War Medal and Mercantile Marine War Medal named to Thomas Wingett with a Memorial plaque similarly named to Thomas Wingett. A similar pair named to Thomas C. Wingett. Thomas Wingett was born in 1869 seems to have been chief cook aboard S.S. Minnehaha who died on the 11th September 1917, he is commemorated at the Baltimoare (Tullagh) Graveyard at the tip of Southern Ireland. He was husband to Martha Louisa Wingett of 22 Arundel Gardens, Goodmayes, Essex. The Minnehaha sank on the 7th September 1917 after being torpedoed by U-boat U-48 off the Fastnet. Thomas Charles Wingett was born in London in 1899, following the war living at 17 Kenilworth Gardens, Seven Kings, Essex. It seems likely that Thomas and Thomas Charles were Father and Son. With a quantity of copied research, original envelopes and Buckingham Palace insert *Condition: With outer card cover and inner cover, the inner cover distressed. Envelopes distressed. Medals in good condition.