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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 26

x A Great War 1916 ´Auxiliary Patrol´ D.S.M., Medaille Militaire Group of Five to Leading Seaman T. Dwyer, Royal Navy a) Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J.8737 T. Dwyer, Lg. Sea. H.M.S. Grive. Aux. Patrol. 1916.), number partially officially corrected b) 1914-15 Star (J.8737, T. Dwyer, A.B., R.N.) c) British War and Victory Medals (J.8737 T. Dwyer. L.S. R.N.) d) France, Republic, Medaille Militaire, silver and enamel, reverse of trophy of arms suspension engraved ´T. Dwyer Ldg. Sea.´, enamel damage, suspension slack on first, nearly very fine (5) Estimate £ 700-900 D.S.M. London Gazette 27.6.1917 Ldg. Sea. Thomas Dwyer, ON J.8737 (Dev.) ´In recognition of services in vessels of the Auxiliary Patrol between the 1st February and 31st December, 1916.´ France, Medaille Militaire London Gazette 21.6.1918 Ldg. Sea. Thomas Dwyer, O.N. J8737 (Dev.) ´For distinguished services rendered during the War.´ J.8737 Leading Seaman Thomas Dwyer, D.S.M. served during the Great War in the Auxiliary Patrol, and awarded his D.S.M. for service in H.M.S. Grive, a 2037-ton Armed Boarding Vessel built in 1905 and taken over by the Royal Navy for service during the War; she was damaged after being torpedoed by UC40 on 8.12.1917 off Shetland, sinking two weeks later.

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