WW1 and WW2 group to John Lyons

A cracking WW1 and WW2 group of medals to a Sailor of the Merchant Navy who were sunk by German U-boat and spent two days in the sea until rescued.
I have not done any research on his WW1 or any more of his WW2 exploits, so plenty of more scope for an already fascinating story.

At 19.37 hours on 29 May 1943 the unescorted Hopetarn (Master Stewart Wilson) was torpedoed and sunk by U-198 about 450 miles east of Durban. Six crew members and one gunner were lost. The master, 28 crew members and seven gunners were picked up two days later by the British merchant Nirvana and landed at Durban on 3 June. The second officer was taken prisoner by the U-boat, transferred to the German supply tanker Charlotte Schliemann on 26 June and landed at Batavia on 15 July. He was handed over to the Japanese and held in a camp on Java for the first four months, then on Sumatra until May 1945 and was liberated in Singapore at the end of the war.

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