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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 569

The 1918 D.S.M. awarded to Engine Room Artificer S. J. E. Gore, Royal Navy, who was later lost in the sinking of the M1 Submarine off the coast of Portsmouth on 12 November 1925

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (M4730. S.J.E. Gore. E.R.A. 3.Cl. Submarines. 1918.), contact marks and pitting, otherwise very fine

D.S.M. London Gazette 24 September 1918.

Sydney John Ethelbert Gore was born in Greenwich, London on 11 March 1891 and worked as a boiler maker prior to enlisting with the Royal Navy on 27 June 1912 for a twelve year period of engagement. Posted first to H.M.S. Pembroke II as a 4th Class Engine Room Artificer, he was later promoted 3rd Class Engine Room Artificer in 1915. During the Great War Gore saw service aboard June, Pembroke II, Conquest, Dolphin and Maidstone.

After the war, Gore continued in the service and was advanced 2nd Class Engine Room Artificer with H.M.S. Forth in 1919 and finally to 1st Class Engine Room Artificer in June 1924 while aboard Pembroke II. This latest promotion came just one year ahead of his posting to submarine M1 on 4 November 1925, who was lost off the coast of Portsmouth days later on 12 November after being struck by Swedish vessel S.S. Vidar. She sank with the loss of all 69 hands and, despite a search being immediately launched, M1 was not found until 1999. Gore was further entitled to a Great War trio; sold together with copied research.

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£280