Auction Catalogue

4 April 2001

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 1034

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4 April 2001

Hammer Price:
£900

A Second War Russian Convoys D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Leading Signalman J. W. Bettridge, Royal Navy, for service aboard the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship S.S. Briarwood in Convoy PQ14

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.34784 L.Sig.); British War and Victory Medals (J.34784 Sig. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage head (L.Sig. H.M.S. Vivid) the Great War and L.S. medals polished, good fine, otherwise good very fine (8) £500-600

D.S.M. London Gazette 30 July 1942: ‘For bravery and endurance while serving in defensively equipped merchant ships.’ Two D.S.M.’s gazetted under this heading. Seedies Roll states: ‘For service in Russian Convoy PQ14 in April 1942.’