Campaign Groups and Pairs 532
A well-documented group of six awarded to Commissioned Boatswain D. A. Dean, Royal Navy, who saw active service during the Spanish Civil War in H.M.S. Devonshire, and served in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Theseus in Korea
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 2nd issue (Cd. Bos’n. D. A. Dean. R.N.); U.N. Korea; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX.131664 D. A. Dean. P.O. H.M.S. Beagle.) good very fine (6)
£260-£300
Dennis Albert Dean was born in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, on 10 August 1911. He was educated at Ross Grammar School and joined the Navy as a Boy in May 1928. He joined Delhi on 5 December 1929 and served in her throughout her commission on the North American, West Indies, and South Americas stations. He saw active service in the Spanish Civil War and during the last war was two years on convoys taking supplies to the Russians at Archangel and was on active service in many other theatres, including the D- Day landings. He was in the destroyer Beagle from May 1943 to November 1944, and received his L.S. & G.C. medal one month before leaving the ship. In June 1946 he was promoted to Acting Boatswain having been ‘Commended for Good Service’ by C-in-C Western Approaches on 31 January 1945. His seniority as Commissioned Boatman was 28 June 1946, and before the Korean War he was stationed at the Boom Defence Depot at Milford Haven. He was in Theseus from 9 August 1950, and saw service during the Korean War. He died on 27 February 1963, at Bishop’s Stortford, where he was a senior traffic inspector.
Sold with a quantity of original documents and photographs, including: a substantial photograph album covering his time in H.M.S. Delhi in 1929-32 during her cruise on the North American, West Indies, and South Americas stations; Diary for the first nine weeks of 1939, in which he records the events aboard H.M.S. Devonshire during part of the Spanish Civil War, including photographs of various bombing raids (extracts from this diary were sent back to his old headmaster at Ross Grammar School and published in the Ross Gazette within days of the events in the Mediterranean); ‘Log Book’ kept 6 August to 18 September, 1942, whilst on passage from Gibraltar to the Clyde, when Dean was Master of a prize, Petite Annick of Douarnenez, taken as a prize in January 1942, together with a copy of the Gibraltar Court Order; and various ‘Neptune’ and masonic certificates, photographs, etc.
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Six: Petty Officer J. Dodsworth, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.104541 J. Dodsworth. A.B. H.M.S. Apollo) mounted for wear, ship of last partially officially corrected, generally very fine or better (6)
£140-£180 M.I.D. London Gazette 4 May 1943 (Mediterranean).
James Dodsworth was born in Richmond, Yorkshire in August 1904. He joined the Royal Navy as Boy 1st Class in August 1922, and advanced to Petty Officer in March 1940 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in October 1937). Dodsworth served with H.M.S. Javelin (destroyer) from January 1942, and was Mentioned in Despatches for her part in the destruction of a flotilla of Italian small ships in Libyan waters, 19 January 1943. The British destroyers Javelin and Kelvin discovered the Tripoli Minesweeping Flotilla fleeing Tunisia for Italy during the course of the night. They attacked immediately, and destroyed the entire flotilla with the loss of 180 Italian sailors’ lives.
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Four: Petty Officer W. E. Gillman, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Dido sustained heavy damage during a German air attack whilst conveying troops from Crete to Alexandria on 29 May 1941
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, good very fine (4) £70-£90
William Frederick Gillman enlisted into the Royal Navy and served during the Second World War aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Dido. During the Fall of Crete in May 1941, Dido, along with other Royal Navy ships, sailed for Heraklion to evacuate as many British and Commonwealth soldiers from the island as possible. This resulted in the rescue of 4,000 servicemen. During the journey from Crete to Alexandria, five Royal Navy ships were sunk with another three being damaged by constant air attack from German aircraft. On 29 May 1941, Dido and H.M.S. Orion were attacked by a squadron of Ju-87 ‘Stuka’ dive bombers. Dido was severely damaged by a direct hit on one of its gun turrets, killing all twelve of the gun crew and leaving a further 15 sailors and 19 soldiers dead below decks. A further 10 sailors and 28 soldiers were also wounded. Gillman was among the sailors killed and he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
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Ten: Shipwright Artificer 1st Class A. A. Gleed, Royal Navy
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (P/MX.748798 A. A. Gleed Shpt. 4. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (P/MX.748798 A. A. Gleed. Shpt. Art. 2, R.N.) minor official correction to initial; Royal Navy L.S. & G. C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (MX.748798 A. A. Gleed. Shpt. Art. 1. H.M.S. Bellerophon.) generally very fine (10) £220-£260
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Three: Able Seaman H. M. Graham, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Gossamer was sunk by a direct hit during an air attack whilst in harbour in the Kola inlet on 24 June 1942
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs E. Graham, 110 Brassey St., Ruchill, Glasgow N.W.’, nearly extremely fine (3)
£80-£120
Hugh McCauley Graham was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He enlisted into the Royal Navy and served aboard the ‘Halcyon’ Class minesweeper, H.M.S. Gossamer. She served extensively during the Dunkirk evacuations, earning her captain a D.S.O., and also took part in the Arctic convoys, where she was an anti-submarine escort for the first convoy, PQ1. Gossamer was witness to the sinking of the cruiser H.M.S. Edinburgh in an air attack during QP11, where she rescued 440 of her survivors. On 24 June 1942, after successfully completing convoy PQ16, the ship was anchored in the Kola inlet when she was attacked by a squadron of German bombers. One aircraft scored a direct hit on Gossamer, causing her to sink with the loss of 3 officers killed, 20 ratings missing and 12 wounded. Graham was one of those killed in the attack, and he is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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