Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War monitor operations D.S.O., royal tour M.V.O. group of ten awarded to Captain N. C. Moore, Royal Navy, who added the Finnish Order of the White Rose to his accolades for subsequent services as a Naval Attache at Helsingfors in 1940

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class, the reverse officially numbered ‘1275’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. N. C. Moore, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr. N. C. Moore, R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Belgian Croix de Guerre 1914-1918; Finland, Order of the White Rose, Commander, 1st Class set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, silver-gilt, the reverse with maker’s stamp, in its A. Tillander case of issue, generally very fine or better (10)
£2500-3000

D.S.O. London Gazette 15 February 1919:

‘For services in monitors off the Belgian coast between 10 July and 11 November 1918.’

M.V.O. London Gazette 8 July 1927.

Finnish Order of the White Rose London Gazette 23 May 1941:

‘In recognition of valuable services rendered as Naval Adviser to the Finnish Government.’

Norman Cameron Moore was appointed Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in July 1909 and was serving in the cruiser H.M.S. Edgar on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914.

Coming ashore to the gunnery establishment Excellent before the year’s end, his next seagoing appointment was in the monitor Sir John Moore from June 1915 until the War’s end. Advanced to Lieutenant-Commander in July 1917, he was, as cited above, awarded the D.S.O. for good work off the Belgian Coast; so, too, the Belgian Croix de Guerre and a mention in despatches (London Gazette 15 September 1916, refers).

Promoted to Commander in June 1923, Moore served in the Renown during H.R.H. The Duke of York’s Royal Tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1927, and was appointed M.V.O. Latterly employed at the Tactics School in Portsmouth, he was placed on the Retired List as a Captain in February 1935.

Recalled on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he was appointed Naval Attache at Helsingfor, Finland, where he acted as Naval Adviser to the Finnish Government - services that included the delivery of four M.T.Bs to the Finns and resulted in his appointment to the Order of the White Rose.

Returning to the U.K. in early 1941, he was employed at Drake as a Staff Officer (Intelligence) and finally came ashore in April 1944. The Captain died in December 1970.

Sold with the recipient’s original D.S.O. and M.V.O. warrants, together with royal licence to wear his Finnish Order of the White Rose, dated 16 May 1941; and some copied research.