Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry 25
A ‘Royal Yacht’ C.V.O. and C.B.E. group of nine awarded to Captain J. S. ‘Fish’ Dalglish, Royal Navy, who served aboard H.M.S. London during the Yangtze incident and was the first Commanding Officer of Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia
The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘C553’; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (Cdr. J. S. Dalglish. R.N.); Coronation 1953, together with companion set of nine miniature medals, both sets mounted for display, good very fine (9)
£1,800-£2,200
C.V.O. London Gazette 1 January 1955: ‘For services in H.M. Yacht Britannia.’ C.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1963. M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1946: ‘For winding-up operations in the Far East.’
James Stephen Dalglish, widely known as ‘Fish’, was born in Kensington, London, on 1 October 1913, eldest son of Robin Campsie Dalglish, later Rear-Admiral. He was educated at Ampleforth and Dartmouth, and in January 1931 joined the battleship Rodney as a Naval Cadet. He was promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 1 January 1934; Sub-Lieutenant, 1 May 1934; Lieutenant, 1 June 1935; Lieutenant-Commander, 1 June 1943; Commander, 30 June 1948; Captain, 30 June 1954; retired, 31 August 1963.
In August 1939 Dalglish was appointed to Kempenfelt as Gunnery Officer of the 18th Destroyer Flotilla, but after less than a month he was posted back to Excellent, where his duties included gunnery training of the armed merchant cruisers. In February 1940 he began a two-year posting in Faulknor, leader of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla, engaged on patrols in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway, and then to Gibraltar as part of Force H, escorting warships and convoys to Malta. In February 1942, following a refit at Southampton, Faulknor escorted convoy PQ9 to Murmansk. In April 1942, Dalglish commenced an 18-month appointment on the staff of the gunnery school at Chatham. Having been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander, Dalglish was appointed to the cruiser Swiftsure in September 1943. He served in this ship for the rest of the war, at home and in the Mediterranean, before sailing for the Far East in October 1944, where Swiftsure took part in Operation Iceberg which lasted until the end of May 1945, when the last Japanese resistance on Okinawa was crushed.
Following an appointment in April 1947 as Staff Officer Force T, the naval component of the British occupation force in Japan, Dalglish was appointed Staff Gunnery Officer of the 5th Cruiser Squadron at Hong Kong and serving in Sussex. After his promotion to Commander in June 1948, he successfully applied to remain in Hong Kong as Fleet Gunnery Officer on the staff of Admiral Alec Madden.
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