Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Second World War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Commander E. R. Maycock, Royal Navy, who earlier had been awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus for his services in the destroyer H.M.S. Hardy at Jutland

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. E. R. Maycock, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. R. Maycock, R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class breast badge, with swords, 40 by 40mm., gold and enamel, koloshnik marks for 1908-17 on sword hilts and other indecipherable marks on reverse and on suspension ring, this last with signs of repair to finials, tooling and other restoration, otherwise generally good very fine or better (7) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1942.

Russian Order of St. Stanislaus London Gazette 5 June 1917.

For distinguished service rendered in the Battle of Jutland.

Ernest Robert Maycock, who was born in August 1882, was appointed a Probationary Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in October 1910 and, after gaining experience in the battleship H.M.S. Implacable, was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant in April 1913 and transferred to the Royal Navy.

By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Maycock was serving as First Lieutenant of the destroyer Hardy, in which capacity he was present at the Battle of Jutland, when the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla launched three separate torpedo attacks against the German line. He was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class, with swords.

In May 1916, Maycock received his first command, the sloop Dahlia, and he remained similarly employed until admitted to R.N.H. Haslar in May 1917, suffering from colitis. On recovering his health in October of the same year, he was given command of another sloop, the Marigold, in which capacity he served until joining the minesweeping service in early 1919. Charged with clearance operations off the Yorkshire coast, he was in command of the Cupar when she was sunk by a mine off the Tyne on 5 May 1919, on which occasion he remained ‘remarkably cool and did his utmost to save her’ (his service record refers.

Maycock was placed on the Retired List at his own request in April 1920, being advanced to Commander (Retired) in August 1922, and it was in the same rank that he was recalled on the renewal of hostilities, when he joined the torpedo training establishment Defiance. And the Navy List records him as being employed at the same establishment until April 1941, whereupon no specific appointment is recorded against his name - here then the period of service that resulted in the award of his O.B.E., which distinction he received at a Buckingham Palace investiture on 17 November 1942.

Removing to the Landing Craft Base Foliot in April 1943, Maycock assumed command of Foliot III that December and would appear to have served in the latter appointment until the end of the War. He was released in early 1946 and died in Exmouth in May 1952.