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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 78

(x) British War Medal 1914-20 (238582 J. T. Timlin. A.B. R.N.), minor edge bruising, very fine

[D.S.M.] London Gazette 26 April 1918.

John Thomas Timlin was born on 8 April 1890 at Liverpool, and enlisted in the Royal Navy at Devonport on 8 April 1908. A habitual offender with a number of spells in the cells for insubordination and 'breaking out', Timlin was one of four men awarded the D.S.M. for his part in the successful evacuation of the Aerodrome at Thermi, Mytilini, on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, 9-15 October 1917. Despite being under continuous bombardment from the enemy, the evacuation was effected entirely without casualties and without loss of stores. Post-war he took American citizenship and served in the Merchant Marine.


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