Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Petty Officer Cook D. T. B. Parker, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (M.37810 P.O. Ck. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (M.37810 P.O. Ck., H.M.S. Dolphin) mounted as worn; Malta George Cross 50th Anniversary Medal, disk detached from suspension; U.S.S.R., 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1945-85, both unnamed, mounted as worn, very fine and better (8) £180-220

Douglas Trevelyan Beaumont Parker was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 17 January 1904. A Cotton Spinner by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as an Assistant Cook on 15 January 1924 and was promoted to Cook in September the same year. As a Petty Officer Cook he served in the Submarine Service 1931-40, serving on H.M. Submarines Perseus, Osiris, Clyde, Oxley, Otway and Seal. He transferred to the surface fleet in August 1940, narrowly avoiding the patrol that saw H.M.S. Seal captured by the Germans. Later in the war he saw service with the convoys to North Russia onboard the destroyer, H.M.S. Keppel - the ship being responsible for the sinking of several German submarines.

With a postcard photograph of two naval ratings; another of H.M.S. Keppel; the recipient’s award card for the Soviet Commemorative Medal 1945-85, named to D. T. B. Parker, P.O. Ck., R.N. H.M.S. Keppel; copied service papers and other research.