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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 475

Miniature Awards: The C.B., O.B.E. Group of Nine Attributed to Rear-Admiral D.L. Davenport, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) Badge, gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer´s (O.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt; Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1936-1939, with M.I.D. Oakleaf; 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 Bar; Italy Star; War Medal, with M.I.D. Oakleaf; General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Malay Peninsula, extremely fine, mounted court-style as worn, in fitted leather case, together with the recipient´s full size riband bar (9) Estimate £ 120-140 C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1969 Rear Admiral Dudley Leslie Davenport, O.B.E. O.B.E. London Gazette 10.6.1954 Commander Dudley Leslie Davenport, Royal Navy (lately on loan to the Indian Navy). Rear-Admiral Dudley Leslie Davenport, C.B., O.B.E. (1919-1990), the son of Vice-Admiral Robert Clutterbuck Davenport, C.B.; educated at Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; served during the Second War in Destroyers in the Mediterranean and Atlantic; Commanded H.M.S. Holmes, 1945; H.M.S. Porlock Bay, 1946; served in H.M.S. Sheffield, 1947-48; at H.M.S. Ganges, 1949-51; Appointed Naval Instructor, Indian Defence Services Staff College, 1951-53; Commanded H.M.S. Virago, 1954-55; Appointed Commander, Royal Navy Barracks Chatham, 1956-57; Advanced Captain, 1957; Captain, Inshore Flotilla Far East, 1960-62; Director, Naval Officers Appointments, 1962-64; Commanded H.M.S. Victorious, 1964-66; Rear-Admiral, 1967; Flag Officer, Malta, 1967-69. For the recipient´s Sword and Midshipman´s Log see Lot 497.

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