Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.M. group of six awarded to Chief Petty Officer Thomas Heffernan, Royal Navy, who landed with the Naval Brigades in South Africa and North China, and was decorated for services with the Naval siege guns in Belgium during the Great War

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (158031. T. Heffernan, P.O. Naval Siege Guns 1916); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (158031 Ldg. Smn. T. Hefferman, H.M.S. Terrible) officially engraved naming; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (T. Hefferman, A.B., H.M.S. Terrible) note spelling of surname on these last two medals; 1914-15 Star (158031 T. Heffernan, P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (158031 T. Heffernan, Act. C.P.O. R.N.) minor contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (6) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine collection of awards for the Boxer Rebellion 1900.

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Recipient not entitled to Relief of Pekin clasp.

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

Thomas Heffernan was born in Dublin on 6 September 1875, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in 1890. He served in South Africa with the Naval Brigade landed from Terrible and continued in that ship to see service in North China. In the Great War he served as Petty Officer in Crescent and Psyche, and as Acting Chief Petty Officer with the ‘Siege Guard’ for service in land operations from August 1916 to May 1918. He was noted for war services in Belgium (A.W.O. 2113 of 8 June 1917) and awarded the D.S.M. for services with the Naval Siege Guns in 1916.