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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 251

The 1914-15 Star awarded to Second Hand C. S. Tofton, Royal Naval Reserve, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1916 and who survived the sinkings of the trawlers 'Japan' and 'Resono' who both sank as a result of hitting mines

1914-15 Star (D.A.1779, C. S. Tofton, D.H., R.N.R.), very fine

[D.S.M.] London Gazette 14 July 1916.

Clifford Stanley Tofton was born on 17 February 1895 at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and enlisted into the Royal Naval Reserve on 23 October 1914, commencing his war service on 29 December 1914. Tofton was awarded a Hurt Certificate (19 February 1917) having suffered immersion by his ship Japan which was a hired trawler and was sunk by mine off the Shipwash Sand, on 16 August 1915.

He received his second Hurt Certificate on 19 July 1916 as a result of injury suffered on 26 December 1915 by a mine explosion whilst serving on the trawler Resono, this was an Admiralty trawler which was sunk by this mine near LV Light vessel off Harwich and a total of 13 people were lost. Tofton received a very severe compound fracture to his left leg which refused to unite until the beginning of April 1916, but he was left with a small issue possibly due to dead bone. He was discharged on 2 April 1919 and received a Disablement Gratuity of £25 on 11 October 1919, in addition he also received a Service and Rank Gratuity of £15. This was followed by Naval Prize Money of £20 in November 1922 with a Supplementary Award of £4 in October 1923. Tofton died on 15 August 1970.

Sold together with a Protection and Identity Certificate dated 5 March 1919, which also confirms the award of a 1914-15 Star Trio issued in May 1922.

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