A rare Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Able Seaman R. C. Trevithick, Royal Navy, also a recipient of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (224420 R. C. Trevithick, A.B., Mediterranean Station, 1917); 1914-15 Star (224420 R. C. Trevithick, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (224420 R. C. Trevithick, A.B., R.N.); Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class breast badge, silver, somewhat polished, nearly very fine or better (5) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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D.S.M. London Gazette 17 May 1917.

Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class London Gazette 6 April 1918.

Richard Charles Trevithick was born in St. Ives, Cornwall in January 1886 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1903. Advanced to Able Seaman in August 1906, he was serving in the battle cruiser H.M.S. Indefatigable on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, and remained similarly employed until coming ashore to Vivid I in October 1915. Returning to sea with an appointment in the sloop Gladiolus from January to November 1916, he removed to the Ribola on the Mediterranean Station in the following month, in which ship he was awarded his D.S.M. and served until joining the destroyer Acheron in July 1917. Having then ended the War in the Acheron, he was demobilised in April 1919, but served in the Royal Fleet Reserve until June 1921; sold with copied service record and other research.