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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 737

A Great War ´Patrol Services´ D.S.M. Group of Four to Telegraphist H.F. Small, Royal Navy a) Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J.9056. H.F. Small, Tel. H.M.S. Doon. Patrol Services. 1915/6), minor official corrections b) 1914-15 Star (J. 9056, H.F. Small, Tel., R.N.) c) British War and Victory Medals (J.9056 H.F. Small, Tel. R.N.), generally good very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (4) Estimate £ 550-650 D.S.M. London Gazette 22.5.1917 Teleg. Harold Frederick Small, ON J.9056 (Ch.), ´´in recognition of services in the Destroyer Patrol Flotillas, Armed Boarding Steamers, &c., during the period which ended on the 30th September, 1916.´´ Harold Frederick Small, D.S.M., born Chislehurst, Kent, 1894; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1910; served during the Great War including in H.M.S. Doon (River Class Destroyer), from August 1914; the latter was involved during this period in patrol and escort duties between the Firth of Forth and the Tyne. Provenance: J.B. Hayward March 1973

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£750