Auction Catalogue

19–21 June 2013

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 821

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19 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£780

A scarce Second World War Normandy operations D.S.M. awarded to Engineman A. Neill, Royal Naval Patrol Service

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Engmn. A. Neill, LT/KX. 117556), good very fine £600-800

D.S.M. London Gazette 19 December 1944:

‘For good services in distributing routeing and diversion instructions to the many ships in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy.’

Adam Neill, a trawlerman from Port Seton, East Lothian, had earlier been mentioned in despatches for his services in
Sunbeam II (London Gazette 1 July 1941 refers). As for his subsequent deeds just off the Normandy coast, for which he was awarded his D.S.M., he was serving in a Harbour Defence Motor Launch, very probably in the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches, and as part of Operation “Bigot”, the security side of Operation “Neptune” - one copied report states that some of these H.D.M.Ls were used for sonic deception duties.