Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 803

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£580

A Second World War ‘Norway operations’ D.S.C. awarded to Chief Skipper John Wilson, Royal Naval Reserve

Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1940’, privately engraved, ‘John Wilson’, hallmarks for London 1940, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £500-600

D.S.C. London Gazette 11 July 1940.

A 1940 Birthday Honours award to Chief Skipper John Wilson of H.M.T. Rutlandshire.

John Wilson was born in Newhaven, Leith, Edinburgh, on 15 February 1899. Serving in the R.N.R., he was ranked as a Deck Hand, 1917-24; Skipper, 1924-34; Chief Skipper, 1934-41, and Skipper Lieutenant, 1941-49. He was Chief Skipper of the armed trawler Rutlandshire, part of the 23rd Anti-Submarine Trawler Group, when it was attacked by German aircraft in Namson Fjord, Norway. Badly damaged, the ship was run aground and abandoned near Namsos, 20 April 1940.

With some copied service details - see also the dedicated website.