Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.M. pair awarded to Trimmer Christopher Pratt, Royal Naval Reserve, for services aboard H.M. Trawler Scott which was sunk by a mine in the outer Thames Estuary on 22 October 1915

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (T.S.3680. C. Pratt, Trimr. R.N.R. H.M. Tr. Scott.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, this added for display purposes, light pitting from Star, otherwise very fine (2) £600-£800

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1916: ‘For bravery and devotion to duty during mine-sweeping and mine-laying operations.’

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 19 December 1917.

Christopher Pratt enrolled on 31 May 1915 and joined Actaeon on 17 June 1915. This was the Auxiliary Patrol Base and Torpedo School at Sheerness at which, presumably, H.M. Trawler Scott was based. He was discharged from Actaeon to the Naval Hospital at Chatham on 23 February 1916, “Invalided”, but no other reason given. The fact that he was awarded the D.S.M. only weeks before this, might indicate an injury sustained when the trawler Scott was sunk by a mine on 22 October 1915, off the Tongue in the outer Thames Estuary. Sold with copied research.