Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.M. group of four awarded to Trimmer L. Clarkson, Mercantile Marine Reserve, H.M.S. Paris

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (Trmr. M.M.R. H.M.S. Paris. 1917); 1914-15 Star (Tr. M.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (L. Fmn.) nearly very fine (4) £400-500

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 October 1917.

H.M.S. Paris was a commissioned merchant vessel used for minelaying in the Bight and Dover Straits during 1916, and in northern waters for the remainder of the war.