Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.M. awarded to Able Seaman J. P. Maguire, Royal Naval Reserve

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (SS.4625 J. P. Maguire, A.B. “Fervent” 1918.) polished, edge bruising, good fine £400-£500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012 (when sold with a 1914-15 Star trio).

D.S.M. London Gazette 15 October 1918.

Joseph Patrick Maguire was born in Belfast in December 1895 and entered the Royal Naval Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman in January 1914. He subsequently witnessed active service in the battleship H.M.S. Agamemnon from September 1914 until January 1916, not least in the Dardanelles campaign, and, from July 1916 until the war’s end, in the torpedo boat destroyer H.M.S. Fervent in home waters, which latter services were rewarded by the D.S.M. He was finally demobilised in April 1921, having latterly served in the Royal Fleet Reserve.