An Interesting WW1 Mercantile Marine & Merchant Fleet Auxillary Medal Trio to Assistant Butcher, Leslie Harris Pendlebury (1536)
An Interesting WW1 Mercantile Marine & Merchant Fleet Auxillary Medal Trio to Assistant Butcher, Leslie Harris Pendlebury (1536)
An Interesting WW1 Mercantile Marine & Merchant Fleet Auxillary Medal Trio awarded to Assistant Butcher, Leslie Harris Pendlebury.
Leslie Harris Pendlebury was born on the 6th of August 1893, at Liverpool.
Pendlebury served with Mercantile Marine and the Merchant Fleet Auxillary during WW1. He served in the large cargo steamship SS. Darro between the 10th of January 1915, and the 9th of March 1915, as an Assistant Butcher.
The Darro was to later become involved in the deadly collison, on the 21st of February 1917, with the converted troopship SS Mendi. The collision took place in the English Channel, south of the Isle of Wight, and resulted in the deaths of 646 people, mainly black South African troops, as well as some white officer’s and N.C.O’s.
We cannot find any research to show that Pendlebury was present on that dark day.
The medals are mounted for dipslay on original ribbons, sold with copied research, and are as follows -
British War & Victory Medals, L.H. PENDLEBURY. ASST. BUTCHER. M.F.A.; Mercantile Marine Medal, LESLIE H. PENDLEBURY
Condition, very fine and better