Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2022 14:37:21 GMT
FROM: May 28, 2011
This post was in regard to a portrait of an unknown Seaman from Barry. Information on the person in the portrait was sought then.
The potrait was used in a Barry Town Council open day, from the cellar storage but aparently the info tag was missing, All info was provided then but, guess by now lost again and the portrait back in storage, I wil chase this up.
I would like to thank both Deep Sea and Ray Buck for earlier help and assisting then in giving great advice and some important clues.
His Name Was: Gordon Love Bastian of Barry and although the details of the local portrait had been misplaced / lost, fortunately some do remember him. The original portrait is held in Government Archives and I have passed on all details to the MN Branch at Barry and Barry Town Council.
The Town will now both know more of and remember one of her own,
Gordon Love Bastian
March 30, 1902 – November 1987 (age 85)
Place of birth: Barry, South Glamorgan
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Service/branch: Merchant Navy
Rank: Second Engineer Officer
Unit: SS Empire Bowman
Battles/wars:
Second World War
Battle of the Atlantic
Convoy SL 126
Awards:
George Cross (originally Albert Medal)
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Gordon Love Bastian GC MBE (30 March 1902 – November 1987) was an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy who was awarded the Albert Medal for risking his own life to save other members of the crew of SS Empire Bowman after it was torpedoed on 31 March 1943.
In 1971, living recipients of the Albert Medal and Edward Medal were instructed to return their medal, and were instead issued with the George Cross, the highest United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations award for civilian gallantry (also awarded to members of the armed forces whose actions were not "in the face of the enemy").
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This post was in regard to a portrait of an unknown Seaman from Barry. Information on the person in the portrait was sought then.
The potrait was used in a Barry Town Council open day, from the cellar storage but aparently the info tag was missing, All info was provided then but, guess by now lost again and the portrait back in storage, I wil chase this up.
I would like to thank both Deep Sea and Ray Buck for earlier help and assisting then in giving great advice and some important clues.
His Name Was: Gordon Love Bastian of Barry and although the details of the local portrait had been misplaced / lost, fortunately some do remember him. The original portrait is held in Government Archives and I have passed on all details to the MN Branch at Barry and Barry Town Council.
The Town will now both know more of and remember one of her own,
Gordon Love Bastian
March 30, 1902 – November 1987 (age 85)
Place of birth: Barry, South Glamorgan
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Service/branch: Merchant Navy
Rank: Second Engineer Officer
Unit: SS Empire Bowman
Battles/wars:
Second World War
Battle of the Atlantic
Convoy SL 126
Awards:
George Cross (originally Albert Medal)
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Gordon Love Bastian GC MBE (30 March 1902 – November 1987) was an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy who was awarded the Albert Medal for risking his own life to save other members of the crew of SS Empire Bowman after it was torpedoed on 31 March 1943.
In 1971, living recipients of the Albert Medal and Edward Medal were instructed to return their medal, and were instead issued with the George Cross, the highest United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations award for civilian gallantry (also awarded to members of the armed forces whose actions were not "in the face of the enemy").
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