A Second War ‘1941’ D.S.M. awarded to Stoker Petty Officer F. D. Mathie, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (C/K, 65516 F. D. Mathie. S.P.O.) cleaned, minor edge bruise, very fine £600-800

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1942:

‘For outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness, and for setting an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld.’

Frederick Davie Mathie was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, in December 1901. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker in January 1925, and advanced to Leading Stoker in October 1935. Mathie was a Stoker Petty Officer by the outbreak of the Second War, and served at H.M.S. Nile (Royal Navy base at Ras el-Tin Point, Alexandria, Egypt) from July 1940. Subsequent service included in H.M.S. Jervis (destroyer). Mathie was invested with the D.S.M. 2 May 1944, and invalided during the same month.

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