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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 15

(x) A Second War 1940 'Dunkirk Evacuation' D.S.C. Group of Six to Engineer J.L. Crockart, Royal Naval Reserve
a) Distinguished Service Cross, reverse officially dated '1940' and additionally privately engraved 'Dunkirk. L.J. [sic] Crockart.', silver (Hallmarks for London 1940), in Garrard, London, case of issue
b) 1914-15 Star (Asst. Eng. J.L. Crockart, R.N.R.)
c) 1939-1945 Star
d) Atlantic Star
e) Defence and War Medals, extremely fine (6)

D.S.C. London Gazette 16.8.1940 Mr. James Lang Crockart, Engineer, H.M. Transport Biarritz
'For good service in the withdrawal of the Allied Armies from the beaches at Dunkirk.'

Engineer James Lang Crockart, D.S.C., Commissioned Assistant Engineer, Royal Naval Reserve, 3.4.1915.

The S.S. Biarritz was a 2,500 ton cross-channel ferry, owned by the Southern Railway Company. During the Second War she served as a troop transport ship, and at the Evacuation from Dunkirk she made five trips, carrying a total of 6,200 men to safety; on one of her trips she came under fire from shore batteries off the French coast off Gravelines; on the 20th June 1940 she evacuated service personnel and civilians from Guernsey, and in June 1944 served as a troop ship during the Normandy Landings.

The 1914-15 Star to Officers in the Royal Naval Reserve was administered separately from the British War, Mercantile Marine, and Victory Medals. There is no evidence that Crockart ever applied for, or received, any other Great War Medals.

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