Miniature Medals

A Great War Destroyer Commander’s D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Commander E. P. U. Pender, Royal Navy


Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr., R.N.) together with original Warrant for D.S.O., minor chipping to the first, otherwise good very fine (4) £800-1000

D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1918: ‘For services in Destroyer and Torpedo Boat Flotillas during the period ending 31st December 1917.’

Edward Pender Usticke Pender was in command of H.M.S. Racehorse at the outbreak of the Great War and took part in the bombardment of the German Army’s right wing on the Belgian coast, 18th October, 1914, and subsequently (London Gazette 13 April 1915). He commanded H.M.S. Greyhound, on the Dover Patrol, February to October 1915, and Mosquito, in the Eastern Mediterranean, December 1915 to September 1917. During this period he co-operated, with the squadron under Rear-Admiral Fremantle, in the French demonstration against Athens in June 1916, and in the operations in support of a party of some 230 Anatolian irregulars against Turkish positions on the Anatolian coast in September 1916. These operations probably resulted in the award of his D.S.O. He subsequently commanded the destroyers Nicator (September 1917 to August 1918), Apollo (August 1918 to April 1919), P14 (April 1919 to November 1919), and finally Rosalind. Commander Pender retired in 1921 and was also awarded the Greek Order of the Redeemer and Portuguese Order of Aviz for services during the war.