Royal Navy WW2 HMS Howe QF 5.25” Gun Tampion Badge. c.1942

HMS Howe, was the last of the 5 British King George V class battleships of the RN, commissioned in 1942.

Like her sister ship HMS Anson, Howe spent most of her career in the Arctic providing cover for Russian convoys, her 1st was convoy RA 51, which safely arrived in Loch Ewe on 9 January 1943.

She also took part in Operation Husky, bombarded Trapani naval base and Favignana in support of the Allied landings along with King George V. She was then attached to the British Pacific Fleet (Task Force 113), where she provided naval bombardments for the Allied landings at Okinawa.

The solid bronze badge depicting “front of a circle of chain Gold, a sword erect point upwards with a diamond studded hilt proper, surmounted by a wolf's head” has been freshly mounted on mahogany with and secured by an imperial screw to the reverse.

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