Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Minesweeping’ D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Engineman A. E. Arnold, Royal Naval Reserve

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (E.S.3244. A. E. Arnold, Engn. R.N.R. “Donalda” Minesweeping. 1917.) surname partially officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1951’, nearly extremely fine (7) £500-£700

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004.

D.S.M. London Gazette 17 April 1918: ‘In recognition of services in mine-sweeping operations between the 1st April and 31st December 1917. Engineman Albert Edward Arnold, R.N.R.’