SMGP-2503 British 3pc medal group KIA WW2 By Italian Torpedo bomber on HMS MARIGOLD DSM Winner

War Medal, Victory medal and 1914 star all named and numbered. A fantastic grouping!

18995 s.w. snelling L. sto. r.n.

Stephen William Snelling age: 46 years date of death: 11/12/1942  date of birth: type: crew rank: Chief Mechanician honors/awards: D S M, Mentioned in Dispatches service no.: C/K 18995 regiment: Royal Navy wreck: HMS Marigold (K87) British Royal Navy – Admiralty – RN cause lost:  torpedo remarks: Son of Stephen James Snelling and Emma Snelling; husband of Florence Mary Snelling, of Balham, London. country:  United Kingdom references:  Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Cwgc entered by:  Jan Lettens entered:  04/02/2017 Read more at wreck site: https://www.wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?133090

HMS MARIGOLD (K87) was a Flower class corvette of the British Royal Navy. She was built by and launched from the yards of Hall, Russell & Company, of Aberdeen, Scotland on 16th November 1940. She went on to have an eventful career in a number of the theatres of the Second World War. On the 9th December, 1942 HMS MARIGOLD was escorting convoy KMS.3Y, off Algiers, Algeria. The convoy was attacked in the late evening by three S.79 VTBs of the 105º Gruppo As (105th Torpedo group) led by Capt. Urbano Mancini. MARIGOLD was hit by a torpedo at around 2200 hours and sank a short time later with 40 of her crew killed. Lt. James Alexander Smith Halcrow, Rnr (age 35) had been her commanding officer since April 25, 1942 and was among those lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?37207