WW2 Royal Navy HMS Sussex Medal Group Burma Pacific, Stoker Squires, London

Second World War Medal Group to a Sailor who served on H. This fantastic WW2 Medal group belonged to Stoker 1st Class Gerald Squires.

He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Medals (5+1) - 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Burma Star (+Pacific Clasp), Defence Medal, War Medal. Medal box addressed to Mr. A rare and interesting copy of H. "SUSSEX" CROSSES THE LINE, 1943. A 1944 printed edition of "The Royal Marines". X2 HMS Sussex related newspaper cutting. Copy photograph of HMS Sussex.

Soldier's Release Book belonging to 6911814 A. Regular Army Certificate of Service - 6911814 Private Archer Edward Squires. (Archer Edward Squires must have been Gerald's brother). Atlantic theatre In September 1939 she operated with Force H in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean during the search for the German raider Admiral Graf Spee. In August her crew detected a defect with her propulsion machinery, so she was sent to Glasgow for repairs to her turbine blades.

While undergoing this work, she was struck by bombs on 18 September 1940. These caused serious fires, gutting the aft end, and she settled on the bottom with a heavy list. She required extensive repairs and did not return to service until August 1942. During these repairs at Stephen's shipyards in Govan, she was fitted with new radar equipment, fire control equipment, ten Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, and two eight-barreled Pom Pom guns.

Indian Ocean After spending January 1943 back with the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Sussex took passage to Mombasa and was redeployed with the 4th Cruiser Squadron of the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean. En route, she intercepted and sank the German tanker Hohenfriedburg just southwest of Cape Finisterre on 26 February but was then attacked by German submarine U-264. Sussex successfully avoided the four torpedoes fired at her.

Pacific theatre Sussex spent 1944 in the Pacific and covered operations in the Netherlands East Indies following the cessation of hostilities. On 26 July 1945, her task force was attacked by two bombers acting as kamikaze suicide weapons. One made an imprint on the side of Sussex, from which it was identified as a Mitsubishi Ki-51 "Sonia". General Seishiro Itagaki, commander of the garrison at Singapore, was brought aboard, where he signed the formal surrender of the army, completing Operation Tiderace, the Allied plan to recapture Singapore.

I will not send this without signed for or tracking. Everything at AJMS Medals is 100% original and genuine unless stated otherwise.

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