A Great War Eastern Mediterranean operations D.S.M. group of five awarded to Ordnance Artificer 1st Class C. H. Hazell, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (M. 4491 C. H. Hazel, Armr. Mte., H.M.S. M. 32, E. Mediterranean), note surname spelling; 1914-15 Star (M. 4491 A. Ar. Mte., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 4491 Act. Armr., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M. 4491 O.A. 2, H.M.S. Pembroke), contact marks and edge bruising, and severely polished, thus fair to fine (5) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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D.S.M. London Gazette 11 April 1917: ‘For services in the Eastern Mediterranean up to 30 June 1916.’

Charles Henry Hazell was born at Taunton, Somerset in March 1893 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in March 1893. An Ordinary Seaman aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Duke of Edinburgh by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he transferred in the rate of Acting Armourer’s Mate to the monitor M. 32 in July 1915, and was awarded his D.S.M. for his services in her over the following year in the Easterm Mediterranean. Hazell remained similarly employed until coming home to an appointment at Vivid II in May 1918, but quickly returned to sea in the battleship Orion that September. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in March 1926 and was still serving at the time his record was transferred in 1928, by that stage as an Ordnance Artificer 1st Class.