Auction Catalogue

13 December 2007

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 931

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£820

A Second World War D.S.C. group of seven attributed to Captain H. R. B. Newton, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Cross
, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1941’, hallmarks for London 1940;1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed as issued, mounted court style, in a glazed wooden case, nearly extremely fine (7) £600-800

D.S.C. London Gazette 1 January 1941.

M.I.D. London Gazette 18 December 1945. Far East War Patrols from January to August 1945.

Hugo Rowland Barnwell Newton was born on 12 December 1912. Appointed a Midshipman in January 1931, he was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant in January 1934 and entered the Submarine Service in September the same year. He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1936, Lieutenant-Commander in May 1944, Commander in June 1948 and Captain in December 1954. He was awarded the D.S.C. in 1941 as a Lieutenant for service on the submarine Sealion and was mentioned in despatches for war patrols in the Far East, as Acting Commander, on the submarine Selene. Newton was taken prisoner when the Cachalot was sunk off Benghazi on 31 July 1941 but was exchanged and repatriated by a special arrangement in March 1943.

Sold with a framed photograph of a submarine, with metal label reading, ‘H.M. S/M. Selene Lt. Cdr. H. R. B. Newton, D.S.C., R.N., 10.11.45’. Together with a folder of copied research.