Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset
D.S.C. London Gazette 2 May 1944: ‘For courage, resource and devotion to duty in H.M. Ships Quilliam, Queenborough, Raider, Ilex and Light Coastal Craft in operations against the enemy.’
D.S.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 28 November 1944. The original recommendation states: ‘This Officer has led the second division of the 30th M.T.B. Flotilla in four successful engagements, with great skill and courage, resulting in the sinking of one merchant vessel (10.8.44) and damage or sinking two R-boats (23.7.44 and 20.8.44). In other minor engagements he has shown the greatest coolness and skill in attempting to bring E-boats to close action.’
M.I.D. London Gazette 23 January 1945 (originally recommended for the D.S.C.): ‘H.M. Ships [including Shore’s M.T.B. 474] made a gallant though unsuccessful attack on a convoy of seven or eight enemy ships off Ijmuiden on the night of the 1st November 1944. Very good work was done in bringing M.T.B. 467, which was severely damaged, back to port.’
The original recommendation states: ‘For outstanding coolness and leadership in action against a heavily armed enemy force on 1/2 November. This officer as Senior Officer of the unit displayed courage and leadership of a high order. He so handled his force that he was able to press home a zone torpedo attack under heavy and accurate gunfire in conditions of good visibility to the closest possible range, thereby enabling the unit to sink a large enemy trawler. During the subsequent withdrawal and passage back, in rough weather conditions, with first one and then two boats disabled he exhibited leadership of a high order, towing M.T.B. 471 clear of the enemy’s gunfire.’
Frederick Maxwell Aglionby, 7th Baron Teignmouth was born in Dublin Ireland, in December 1920, and was the youngest son of the 6th Baron Teignmouth. He was brought up at the family home of Brownsbarn in Co. Kilkenny, and educated at Wellington College. After school he started to study commercial art in London, only to volunteer for service as a Rating with the Royal Navy in September 1939. Lord Teignmouth was posted to the destroyer H.M.S. Broke for convoy escort duties in the Atlantic, in June 1940. He was commissioned in March 1941, and the following month was posted to join a Motor Torpedo Boat flotilla in the Mediterranean.
Lord Teignmouth served along the North African coast to the end of the desert campaign, and was ‘in Tobruk when it fell, but escaped and took part in all the coastal operations from El Alamein to Tunis.’ (copied newspaper cutting included in lot refers). He was appointed to the command of M.T.B. 298, as part of the newly commissioned 20th Flotilla, in August 1943. Lord Teignmouth quickly achieved a reputation for dash and ship-handling in a score of fierce inshore actions.
The 20th Flotilla was engaged in the Salerno landings in September 1943, and the surrender of the off-shore islands in the Bay of Naples - Capri, Ischia, Procida and Ventotene:
‘It was after the surrender of Ventotene on 8/9 September that two boats of 20th Flotilla, 298 (Lt The Hon F. Shore) with 289 (Barnsdale), were sent to attempt a landing of agents on the mainland in the Gulf of Gaeta. During the passage they encountered an enemy convoy consisting of several F-lighters, Siebel ferries and R-boats moving along the coast. Shore immediately attacked the largest F-lighter, and both his torpedoes hit and destroyed the target, which blew up with the ammunition it was carrying. It was the first torpedo sinking by a boat from the 20th Flotilla, and a very rare success for torpedo attack on F-lighters by any of the flotillas at this time.
Shortly after this, Shore was given another task, being sent to the island of Ponza where Intelligence reported that Mussolini was being held, and if possible to bring him off and hand him over to the Allies. Unfortunately he had already been moved to Sardinia.’ (Mediterranean MTBs At War, L. C. Reynolds and H. F. Cooper, refers)
The end of the year found Shore operating in the Adriatic with the 20th Flotilla. He played a prominent role in the sinking of the German Cruiser Niobe:
‘For months the Partisans had been troubled by intervention in their landings and patrols by what CCF later described as a ‘hoary but agile old cruiser’ with heavy armament and which naturally constituted a considerable threat to the Allied light forces as well as to the Partisans. The MTBs had sought her for weeks but had so far not found her. She had been built before the First World War as a German light cruiser, the Niobe. When she was passed to the Yugoslav Navy after the surrender in 1919, they renamed her Dalmacija. In 1941 she was taken over by the Italians, but since 8 November 1943 the Germans had returned to her original name and she was the Niobe again, working out of Pola to the north.
In Komiza news was received on 21 December from Intelligence sources that Niobe was aground on the south-west tip of Silba Island (not far from Zara), and that tugs were trying to salvage her.... Lancaster [Lieutenant J. D. ‘Butch’ Lancaster, D.S.C.] set off immediately with two boats: 298 (Shore) of the 20th, and 226 of the 24th, temporarily commanded by Lt. P. Hyslop. They made a fast passage northward outside all the main islands at 25 knots (they had about 90 miles to cover from Vis) and approached Silba through the narrow channel between Skarda and Ist, arriving at 0100 Lancaster slowed to 4 knots to take stock of the situation, and sighted the cruiser surrounded by tugs and E-boats. Using silenced engines they crept in to 400 yds, and fired their four torpedoes. There was some inaccurate small-arms fire from the attending boats, but the cruiser was hit by the two torpedoes, and the tug Parenzo alongside her was also destroyed. The Niobe was a total loss and played no further part in the war.
The two MTBs slipped away, quietly retraced a course past Ist and back to Komiza as dawn was breaking. The Partisan leaders were elated, as they had found this old cruiser a thorn in their flesh. In many ways this early major success by the MTBs was a very significant boost to the trust which built up between the Partisans and the Royal Navy.’ (Mediterranean MTBs At War, L. C. Reynolds and H. F. Cooper, refers)
Lord Teignmouth was awarded the D.S.C. for his gallantry during the successful attack on the Niobe, with the investiture taking place 10 October 1944. The 20th Flotilla continued to operate with the 24th from Komiza, in and around the Dalmatian Islands, throughout January 1944. Lord Teignmouth was part of a three MTB patrol, 31 January/1 February 1944. On the latter date they sank two schooners with depth charges off Silba Island, after taking off two German and six Italian prisoners.
Lord Teignmouth was recalled to the UK, and was appointed to the 30th Flotilla as part of the Nore Command in May 1944. The 30th Flotilla was posted to Portsmouth, with Lord Teignmouth eventually commanding the Second Division of the flotilla:
‘To reinforce the hard-pressed boats on the nightly blockade of Le Havre and to protect the Allied anchorage from attacks from the east. One feature of Peter Magnus’ flotilla was that four of his COs were vastly experienced, having served with distinction for two years in the Mediterranean. Lt The Hon F. M. A. Shore in 474, Lt. D. D. Owen-Pawson in 472, Lt. J. J. Aimers in 473 and Lt. R. Campbell RCNVR in 480 all featured... in the campaigns along the North African coast off Tunisia, then in the invasion of Sicily and in the Italian campaign. It said a great deal for their dedication that they were once again in the thick of the fray.
Freddie Shore led the first unit of the flotilla to meet the enemy, off Cap d’Antifer on 14/15 July, with Ross Campbell and Jeff Aimers. They were vectored to a group of E-boats which fled as soon as the attack began, and it never developed beyond a brief long-range skirmish. Their turn would come again....
Not every brush with the enemy led to positive results, but on 8/August a unit of the 30th led by Freddie Shore had a rare encounter with a merchant vessel, sank her and damaged her R-boat escort. Two nights later he led a different unit and had a tough battle with an unpleasant Sperrbrecher and its escort... [On the night of the 19th] Shore’s unit of the 30th made an unsuccessful torpedo attack on six R-boats, and without pause followed this up with a gun attack, cutting through the enemy line and savagely raking the boats with gunfire on either side. Enemy radio admitted that one R-boat was sunk, and two others were known to have been damaged. And so it went on...’ (Home Waters MTBs & MGBs At War 1939-1945, L. C. Reynolds refers)
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