The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late John Hillard
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A rare Imperial Military Order of the Dragon awarded to Vice-Admiral
Sir Theodore Hallett, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy
U.S.A., IMPERIAL MILITARY ORDER OF THE DRAGON (Lieut. Theodore J. Hallett,
Royal Navy, No. 752), complete with “Pagoda” suspension bar and old
(stained and frayed) silk riband, good very fine £1200-1400
Only 20 Naval officers became members of the Military Order of the Dragon.
Theodore John Hallett was born at Hardwick, Warwickshire in January 1878 and
entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in July 1891. Advanced to Lieutenant in
December 1899, he witnessed active service off China in H.M.S. Phoenix and
gained entitlement to the China Medal without clasp, in addition to becoming a
member of the Imperial Military Order of the Dragon.
By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was serving in the rank of
Commander aboard the battleship Neptune, in which capacity he remained
employed until removing to the Royal Sovereign in March 1916 and, in June
1917, to the cruiser Blonde, as a newly promoted Captain. He was awarded the
C.B.E. in September 1919 for ‘His valuable command of H.M. Ships and as Flag
Captain to the Rear-Admiral commanding the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron’ (his
service record refers).
Advanced to Rear-Admiral in April 1928, Hallett received a glowing report from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes for his services as Captain of
the Fleet in the Mediterranean, became an A.D.C. to the King in the same year, and was appointed C.B. in January 1931, prior to being
placed on the Retired List in the rank of Vice-Admiral in January 1933.
Recalled on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he was employed in the press section of the Naval Intelligence Department,
prior to being appointed to special service in the rank of Commodore 2nd Class in February 1940, and as a Commodore of Convoys
that June, his service record further noting that he was mentioned in despatches for Dunkirk (London Gazette 16 August 1940 refers).
Shortly thereafter, however, he transferred to Combined Operations as a C.O. of assorted training centres, in which capacity he served
until joining the Staff of the C.-in-C. Portsmouth in March 1944, a wartime record that won him the following praise from Admiral Lord
Mountbatten:
‘Vice-Admiral Hallett originally commanded the Combined Training Centre at Inveraray and later was appointed Director of Combined
Training. Much of the technique of Combined Operations owes its inception to him. He proved himself a most loyal and charming
colleague and was universally popular with all whom he came in contact.’
Hallett was awarded the K.B.E. in June 1944 and reverted to the Retired List in October 1945.
510
NATAL 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Dvr. D. A. Young, A Battery, N.F.A.), edge nicks and minor contact wear, very fine £80-100
511
The Naval General Service Medal awarded to Ordinary Seaman J.
Jones, Royal Navy, one of “The Few” who remained aboard H.M.S.
Amethyst throughout the Yangtze incident after the evacuations
carried out at Rose Island and Hsiao Ho
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (D/SSX. 855419 J.
Jones, Ord. Smn., R.N.), edge bruise, otherwise better than very fine
£1500-2000
John Jones, a native of Liverpool, is verified on the roll of the “Few” in C. E.
Lucas Phillips’ Escape of the Amethyst.
512
The Naval General Service Medal awarded to Able Seaman C. H. Brewis, Royal Navy, who was wounded aboard H.M.
S. London during the Yangtze incident
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (C/JX. 278986 C. H. Brewis, A.B., R.N.), one or two edge bruises,
contact marks, otherwise very fine £1000-1200
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