Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (196547 E. C. Dyer (Alias W. J. J. Dyer), P.O., H.M.S. Blenheim), rate officially corrected, very fine and unusual with an alias £70-90

Edward Cecil Dyer was born in Bermondsey, London in May 1884 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1897. A Petty Officer serving at the torpedo school Actaeon at Sheerness by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, his wartime seagoing appointments comprised the cruiser H.M.S. Blenheim (October 1915 to March 1916), the destroyer Beagle (April 1916 to September 1917), the armed merchant cruiser Marmora (January until her loss in July 1918), and the destroyer Stork (from August 1918). On the occasion of Marmora’s loss to an enemy submarine off the Irish coast on 23 July 1918, Dyer suffered from exposure - but in the event, all of her crew were rescued, excepting those killed by the initial explosion of the torpedo. Advanced to Chief Petty Officer in May 1919, he was invalided ashore in June 1923 - his service record (copy included) has two or three margin references to his L.S. & G.C. Medal, an award that appears to have been issued in November 1917.