Miniature Medals

A Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer A. L. Pond, Royal Navy, who served aboard the Penshurst, one of the most successful Q-Ships of the war

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (130926 C.P.O., Patrol Services 1915/6) small official correction to number; 1914-15 Star (130926 C.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (130926 L.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Cleopatra) generally good very fine (5) £500-700

D.S.M. London Gazette 22 May 1917.

Alfred Lloyd Pond was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, on 30 September 1869, and joined the Royal Navy in March 1885, as a Boy Second Class. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1902, and was discharged to Pension as Chief Petty Officer in August 1909, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve shortly afterwards. He was recalled in August 1914 and served aboard the battleship Canopus which took part in the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in December of that year, and subsequently in the Dardanelles. In May 1916 he was discharged to Vivid and, on 15 June 1916, appointed to H.M.S. Q7, more famously known as the Penshurst. He remained aboard this Q-Ship until 16 February 1917, having witnessed the destruction of the UB-19 on 30 November 1916, and the UB-37 on 14 January 1917. Sold with copy service papers