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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1240

A Second War D.S.C. Group of Three to Lieutenant, Late Commissioned Gunner, G.H. Read, Royal Navy a) Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ´1945´ (Hallmarks for London 1947) b) British War and Victory Medals (J.61045 G.H. Read. Ord. R.N.), D.S.C. very fine, campaign medals worn, fine, together with five National Rifle Association Bisley Meeting Prize Lists in pamphlet form (1946-1950) in which Read is mentioned eight times; and the following five prize medals: - Shooting Medal, silver, with bar which is engraved ´Challenge Cup 1872´, and silver top riband bar - National Rifle Association Smallbore Shooting Medal, gilt, reverse engraved ´Rathbone Cup 1947-48´ - Royal Navy Rifle Shooting Medal, metal, with , with bar which is engraved ´Inter-Services XX 1949´ - Royal Naval Rifle Association, Bisley, Medal, metal, with bar which is impressed ´Portsmouth Cup 1949´ - Royal Naval Rifle Association, Bisley, Medal, metal, with bar which is impressed ´Bisley Cup 1950´ (lot) Estimate £ 1,100-1,300 D.S.C. London Gazette 11.12.1945 Mr. George Henry Read, Commissioned Gunner, Royal Navy ´For distinguished service during the War in Europe.´ Lieutenant George Henry Read, D.S.C., born Hastings, Sussex, 1901; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, 14.10.1916; Ordinary Seaman 1.8.1918; advanced to Petty Officer, 22.2.1927; Acting Gunner 1.4.1928; Commissioned Gunner 1.4.1938; posted in that capacity to H.M.S. Diomede (Cruiser), America and West Indies Fleet, 30.7.1940; posted to H.M.S. Devonshire (Cruiser), 15.10.1943, and was serving in her when she formed part of the escort for the aircraft carriers Formidable and Indefatigable when they carried out air attacks on the Tirpitz, in Kaafjord, Norway, July 1944; in December of the same year Devonshire escorted the Carrier Trumpeter during minelaying operations off Norway, during which the she came under heavy attack by JU88 torpedo bombers, one of which Devonshire managed to shoot down with close range armament; Lieutenant 24.6.1946; retired 28.1.1951, after 35 years continued service.

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