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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 393

(x) The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Commander G. G. D. Salmon, D.S.C., Royal Navy, who, having lent valuable service aboard H.M.S. Superb at Jutland, was awarded a D.S.C. for his gallant command of the Q-Ship PC-62

Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20, 4 clasps, Jutland 31 May 16, Q-Ships, North Sea 1916, Narrow Seas 1918; Victory Medal 1914-19; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (8)


George Gordon Dunstan Salmon was born in Portsmouth in May 1889, the son of an Inspector of Machinery. Appointed a Midshipman in H.M.S. Black Prince in May 1906, he was serving as a Lieutenant in the Superb on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. He was subsequently present at Jutland, when Superb fired 54 salvos and claimed hits on the stricken Wiesbaden.

Having then transferred the Q-ship PC-62 in August 1917, Salmon's courage and leadership would be displayed to great effect on 26 January 1918. The German Submarine War takes up the story:

'Just after four o'clock in the morning H.M.S. P 62 was zigzagging between the Tuskar and Smalls across the Irish Sea when see sighted the enemy, made for him, but before the latter had time to dive, rammed him good and heartily at right angles. Now, the P-boats had been designed specifically for ramming and this one was travelling at seventeen knots. She smote the submarine just abaft the conning-tower and was brought up all standing in the darkness of night. A magnificent occasion! Down disappeared U 84 and when dawn came it showed a sea smooth, with large quantities of oil; but a depth-charge set at 200 feet was dropped as a final full stop.'

Salmon was duly presented with his D.S.C. aboard PC-26. A Lieutenant-Commander by war's end, he witnessed further active service in the Second World War; sold with copied research.


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