Description WW2 Submarine P.514 casualty group. 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; 1939-45 Wr Medal; Condolence slip, Richard W.W. Powell.; Bottom half of the Box of issue, Director of Navy Accounts. P/SSX25448. Able Seaman Richard William Walter Power was from Bognor Regis, Sussex. He was serving on Submarine P.514 when he died on the 21st June 1942, following the Submarine being rammed by HMCS Georgia. USS R-19 was transferred to the Royal Navy on 9 March 1942 at New London. P 514 was sunk by accident in western Atlantic. She was on passage around the coast of Newfoundland from Argentia to St Johns. On 20 June 1942 P 514 (Lt. Walter Augustus Phillimore, RN) [Lt.Cdr. Richard Michael Eames Pain, RN was not in command but was taking passage] left the Canadian village of Argentia bound for St Johns, Newfoundland. At 0300 hours on the 21st the Canadian minesweeper HMCS Georgian (A/Lt.Cdr. A.G. Stanley, RCNR) was waiting to provide escort for a convoy bound for Sydney. The Georgian, unaware that any friendly submarines were in the area, assumed that the dark shape of P 514 crossing her bow, was an enemy vessel. The Georgian rammed the mystery submarine amidships and reported it sunk in position 46°33N, 53°39W. A rescue mission was immediately sent out but no survivors were found. A Board of Enquiry into the accident accepted that the Commanding Officer of the Georgian had acted correctly as there had been no reply from the submarine to his identification challenge. Condition – GVF
