Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Evacuation of Gallipoli’ D.S.M. group of four awarded to Petty Officer T. G. McNaughton, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (222292 P.O., Gallipoli Opns. 1915-6) official correction to ‘Gallipoli’; 1914-15 Star (222292 P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (222292 P.O., R.N.) some contact marks, nearly very fine (4)
£900-1100

D.S.M. London Gazette 15 May 1916. ‘... in recognition of the services of Petty Officers and Men of the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron during the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula in December 1915-January 1916’.

Thomas Grieg Macnaughton was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire on 16 July 1886. A Clerk by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in August 1902, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in June 1903. Serving on the Prince of Wales he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in July 1904 and Able Seaman in February 1906. In May 1914, when on the Excellent, he was advanced to Petty Officer. During the first months of the war he served on the battleship Duncan, August 1914-January 1915. Later in 1915 and on into 1916 he served in the Eastern Mediterranean, being based on Europa I at Mudros and Smyrna, August 1915-January 1916 and on the cruiser Talbot, January-December 1916. During the period December 1915-January 1916 he was involved in the operations to evacuate the Gallipoli Peninsula, for which service he was awarded the D.S.M. Later in the war he served on Hyacinth, December 1916-August 1917 and Dreadnought, December 1917-January 1918 and March-August 1918. Sold with copied service papers.