Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War channel convoys D.S.M. group of five awarded to Yeoman of the Signals E. T. Himbury, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (D/JX. 128910 E. T. Himbury, Y.S.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX. 128910 Y.S., H.M.S. Fernie), mounted as worn, contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (5) £500-600

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1942.

‘For oustanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness, and for setting an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld.’

Edwin Terence Himbury was decorated for his services aboard H.M.S. Fernie, a Hunt-class destroyer that survived many early channel convoys - a selection of her Captain’s reports for the period August to November 1940 reveal numerous encounters with enemy aircraft. Himbury was invested with his D.S.M. at Buckingham Palace on 28 April 1942, shortly after the Fernie had been damaged in a fierce encounter with a German auxiliary cruiser. Interestingly, she went on to serve in support of the Dieppe raid in August 1942, when she was again damaged by gunfire.