Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer D. C. Gedny, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (237845 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (237845 L.S., R.N.), contact wear, about very fine, together with a related silver cigarette case, hallmarks for London 1911, with presentation inscription, ‘Duncan Gedney, A.B., From Lt. Commdr. & Mrs. Alison, October 1915 to April 1917’ (4) £80-100

Duncan Chaston Gedny was born in Suffolk in February 1891 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1906. The outbreak of hostilities found him serving as an Able Seaman in the destroyer depot ship H.M.S. Woolwich, and from April 1916 until August 1917, he would appear to have served in the destroyer Druid. He ended the War as a Leading Seaman at another destroyer depot ship. Gedny was invalided from the Service in April 1927, having attained the rank of Petty Officer.