Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Engine Room Artificer Second Class T. T. Jones, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches for the capture of a German ship off the coast of Norway in 1940

War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (D/MX 53731 T. T. Jones. E.R.A.2. R.N. M) last letter in naming erroneously impressed and subsequently crossed-through, nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140

M.I.D. London Gazette 7 June 1940: Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Thomas T. Jones, D/MX.33731, H.M.S. Valiant.
‘For good service on the occasion of the seizure of the German Armed Trawler Blankenburg.’

Thomas T. Jones served during the Second World War as an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in the Royal Navy and was Mentioned in Despatches for his services during the 1st Battle of Narvik, one of only two M.I.D.s awarded to the crew of H.M.S. Valiant on the occasion of the seizure of the German Armed Trawler Blankenburg, which was captured off the coast of Norway on 6 April 1940. This vessel was renamed H.M.S. Recoil and used as an anti-submarine trawler, but later lost on patrol. Jones later served in the post-War Palestine campaign as an Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class.