WW2 Boxed Casualty Group of Medals to Able Seaman Robert Stanley Bailey, HMS Jaguar

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45
In Box of Issue
: D/JX183855
H.M.S. Jaguar, Royal Navy who died on 26 March 1942 Age 22
Son ofRobert and Norah A. Bailey, of Fulham, London.
Remembered with Honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
HMS Jaguar was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in September 1939, she was present at the Dunkirk evacuation the following year, during which Jaguar was damaged by dive bombers.
he destroyer brought 700 troops to Dover and was returning the next day to pick up more, when she was attacked at 11.55 hours by 17 German Ju87 dive-bombers. She later served in the Mediterranean and was involved in several actions there. She was torpedoed off the coast of Egypt by U Boat U-652 (Georg- Werner Fraatz) on 26 March 1942 and sunk

Code: 68231