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Auction: 16003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 19

(x) The 1944 D.S.M. Group of Eleven to Petty Officer Telegraphist J.R. Melrose, Royal Navy
a) Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (P.O. Tel. J.R. Melrose. P/J62858)
b) British War and Victory Medals (J.62858 J.Melrose. B.Tel. R.N.)
c) Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (J.62858. J.R. Melrose. L.Tel. R.N.)
d) 1939-1945 Star
e) Atlantic Star
f) Italy Star
g) Defence and War Medals
h) Coronation 1953
i) Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (J.62858 J.R. Melrose. L.Tel. H.M.S. Greenwich.), the BWM and VM very fine, the remainder better, mounted court-style for presentation purposes, together with the Admiralty letter of award for the D.S.M., the accompanying certificate for the Coronation 1953 Medal, this addressed 'James Russell Melrose, D.S.M.' and a photograph of H.M.S. Greenwich (11)

D.S.M. London Gazette 8.6.1944 Petty Officer Telegraphist James Russell Melrose, P/J 62858 (Edinburgh)

62858 Petty Officer Telegraphist James Russell Melrose, born Fauldhouse, Linlithgow, Scotland, 21.7.1901; enlisted with the Royal Navy as Boy Telegraphist during the Great War; latterly serving in and off Palestine; a letter dated 30.6.1944 provides more information to the award of the Distinguished Service Medal 'Sir, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they have learned with great pleasure that, on the advice of the First Lord, the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of His Majesty's Birthday, to award you with the Distinguished Service Medal for gallantry in the face of the Enemy, and for setting an example of wholehearted devotion to duty which upheld the high traditions of the Royal Navy. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, R. Gleadow.'; invested, 31.10.1944.

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000