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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 386

A scarce Great War armed merchant cruiser operations D.S.M. group of five awarded to Engine Room Storekeeper R. C. James, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, who was in his mid-50s at the time of being decorated for his distinguished work on the Atlantic run

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (R. C. James, Lg. Fire'n. (M.M.), H.M.S. Almanzora, 1916); 1914-15 Star (R. C. James, E.R. Stkpr., M.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (R. C. James, E.R. Stkpr., M.F.A.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Robert C. James); Victory Medal 1914-19 (R. C. James, E.R. Stkpr., M.F.A.), first with edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine and a scarce combination (5)

D.S.M. London Gazette 21 April 1917:

'In recognition of services in the Patrol Cruisers under the command of Vice-Admiral G. O. Tupper, C.B., C.V.O., during the period 1 July to 31 December 1916.'

Robert Charles James, who was born in Southampton in 1863, served aboard the armed merchant cruiser - ex-passenger liner - H.M.S. Alamnzora, on the central and north Atlantic run. A ship of the 10th Cruiser Squadron, she was refurbished after the war and entered service on the Southampton-River Plate route, in which capacity James remained employed until coming ashore in 1928, aged 65 years. He died in Southampton in 1942; sold with copied research.

Almanzora's logs are available at http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-08-HMS_Almanzora.htm


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