Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1917 ‘Mediterranean Station’ D.S.M. group of six awarded to Chief Yeoman of Signals S. J. Clover, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (227223 S. J. Clover, Yeo. Sigs. Mediterranean Station. 1917.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (227223. S. J. Clover. Yeo. Sig. H.M.S. Highflyer.); 1914-15 Star (227223, S. J. Clover, Y.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (227223. S. J. Clover Y.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (227223. S. J. Clover, Yeo. Sigs. H.M.S. Ganges.) light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (6) £700-£900

D.S.M. London Gazette 17 May 1918:
‘For Services on the Mediterranean Station’

Sydney John Clover was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk in December 1887 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in July 1903. Advanced to Leading Signalman in September 1907, he witnessed active service in the Persian Gulf in the cruiser H.M.S. Highflyer, November 1911 until December 1912. Advanced to Yeoman of Signals in February 1913, he was serving in the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Lord Nelson on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, in which ship he was awarded his D.S.M. for services on the Mediterranean Station in 1917 and, besides one period ashore from December 1917 to July 1918, he remained similarly employed until after the War’s end. He was advanced to Chief Yeoman of Signals in May 1921 and returned to sea in the battleship H.M.S. Benbow from November 1921 to March 1923, before being finally shore pensioned in December 1927.