Orders, Decorations and Medals

Lieutenant-Commander Douglas George Jeffrey, D.S.O., M.B.E., Royal Canadian Navy
Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: Distinguished Service Order; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; 1939-45 Star; Polar Medal 1904; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with silver Maple Leaf emblem; France, Croix de Guerre, 1914-18; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle; Russia, Order of St. George, good condition £30-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

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Douglas George Jeffrey, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.R., April 1912; Lieutenant, December 1914; Lieutenant-Commander, December 1918. Awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 17 November 1917). Post-war he served on the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921-22, aboard the Quest, the members of which appear not to have qualified for the Polar Medal. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy, commanding a number of vessels including the Q-Ships Chagford, Arvonian and Pangloss. In later life he was the Conservative Party Agent for Sir Alec Douglas-Home and was awarded the M.B.E. for his political service. With copied research.