Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Aegean operations’ D.S.M. group of four awarded to Able Seaman Frank Harrison, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J.40650 F. Harrison, A.B. “Lord Nelson” 1918); 1914-15 Star (J.40650 Boy 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (J.40650 A.B. R.N.) mounted as worn, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £800-1000

D.S.M. London Gazette 11 December 1918: ‘For services in the Aegean between the 1st January and 30th June 1918.’ Rear-Admiral C. F. Lambert assumed the Aegean command in H.M.S. Lord Nelson in March 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 January 1919 [Salonika].

Frank Harrison was born at Sleaford, Lincolnshire, on 30 May 1899, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 6 May 1915. He served aboard the battleship Lord Nelson from September 1917 until May 1919, and left the Navy in May 1929, time expired. Sold with copy record of service.