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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 10

A Scarce Great War 1917 ´Q-Ship Operations´ D.S.O., 1915 D.S.C. Group of Four to Lieutenant T.E. Price, Royal Naval Reserve, Decorated for Service in H.M.S. Gunner and for the Command of H.M.S. Merops When She Sank A German U-Boat, 24.5.1917 a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue b) Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1914), reverse contemporarily engraved in upright sans-serif capitals ´Lieut. T.E. Price R.N.R.´, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue, the case embossed ´Lieut. T.E. Price R.N.R.´ c) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. T.E. Price. D.S.C., R.N.R.) d) France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-1917, avec Palmes, generally very fine or better, with Bestowal Document for the Distinguished Service Order, named to ´Thomas Edward Price, Esquire, D.S.C., Lieutenant in Our Royal Navy, dated 22.6.1917 (4) Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 D.S.O. London Gazette 22.6.1917 Price, Thomas Edward, D.S.C., Lieut., Royal Naval Reserve D.S.C. London Gazette 13.9.1915 Lieutenant Thomas Edward Price, R.N.R. France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 17.5.1918 Lieutenant Thomas Edward Price, D.S.O., D.S.C., posted as Sub-Lieutenant for service in H.M.S. Gunner, 14.9.1914, for Special Service in the Firth of Forth Minesweeping Flotilla, the latter was in fact an armed trawler and better known as Q.31; during this time he was ´awarded D.S.C. for services in connection with sinking of German submarine by armed trawlers..... 20.7.1915´ (Service papers refer); Lieutenant 22.12.1914; posted to the Command of Q.28, 22.3.1917, renamed H.M.S. Merops, 1.5.1917; and later that month, ´sunk an enemy submarine by gunfire on 24.5.17. awarded D.S.O. Invested with D.S.O. at Buckingham Palace, 15.8.1917´ (Service papers refer); served with Q-Ship H.M.S. Alma (renamed Vera Elizabeth), 1.10.1917-9.2.1918; posted to H.M.S. Vivid, 8.9.1918, for Naval Ordnance Duties at Hayle; demobilised 6.8.1919.

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