Auction 134
Autograph Auction Military TV Film Music Historic Space Photos Books Sport Prints
By Chaucer Auctions
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May 24, 2023
Unit 1, Bowles Well Gardens, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6PQ
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LOT 70:
Victoria Cross winner Capt R Ryder VC signed 40th ann St Nazaire raid Navy cover. Red' Ryder went to Cheltenham ...
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Victoria Cross winner Capt R Ryder VC signed 40th ann St Nazaire raid Navy cover. Red' Ryder went to Cheltenham College and entered the Navy in 1927. He was an outstanding captain of the schooner 'Penola', often in great difficulties, on the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934-37. Just before World War II he served in the battleship 'Warspite', flagship in the Mediterranean, then volunteered to serve in 'Q-ships' and survived four days clinging to wreckage when his first command, a Cardiff ex-trawler, was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea in June 1940. He was sunk again (by collision) before helping plan, and commanding, the St Nazaire raid of 1942 in HMS 'Campbeltown', for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross (with four others). He also helped plan the less successful Dieppe raid and was fully involved in other operations needing his seafaring skills, including D-Day, until the end of the war. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.
