Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War D.S.M. group of eleven awarded to Leading Telegrapher L. W. Skilleter, Royal Navy, a long serving Station Officer in the London Fire Brigade

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J. 79467 L. W. Skilleter. L. Tel. H.M.S. Teviot Bank.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 79467 L. W. Skilleter. B. Tel. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star, 1 clasp, Burma; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (J. 79467 (Ch. B. 22147) L. W. Skilleter. L. Tel. R.F.R.); Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Stn Offr. Leonard W. Skilleter); London Fire Brigade Good Service Medal, 2nd type (Leonard W. Skilleter 1945) the Great War pair polished, these nearly very fine, otherwise generally very fine (11) £800-£1,200

D.S.M. London Gazette 14 January 1941:
‘For gallantry and devotion to duty while serving in H.M. Minelayers’

Leonard William Skilleter was born in Hornsey on 14 October 1901 and entered naval service in 1917, serving in Impregnable, Ganges and Glorious before the end of the war. He was released to shore in October 1931, joining the London Fire Brigade, later receiving their good service medal, as well as the Royal Fleet Reserve at the same time. Re-engaged in September 1939, he spent most of the war in Teviot Bank and Vindictive, latterly as a Petty Officer Telegrapher, before he was released in September 1945.