Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1294

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£480

A Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Commissioned Gunner J. A. Reynolds, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (201470 P.O. H.M.S. Jessamine. Patrol Services 1915/6); 1914-15 Star (201470 P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (201470 P.O. H.M.S. Colleen) mounted as worn, very fine (5) £400-450

D.S.M. London Gazette 22 May 1917: ‘In recognition of services in the Destroyer Patrol Flotillas, Armed Boarding Steamers, &c., during the period which ended on the 30th September 1916.’

James Alfred Reynolds was commissioned as Gunner (Temporary) on 7 June 1917, and served in H.M.S.
Norman from 8 December 1917.