A Second World War O.B.E. and Great War ‘Minelaying’ D.S.C. group of six awarded to Commander J. H. Drummond, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. J. H. Drummond, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. J. H. Drummond. R.N.) these four mounted as worn; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels, together with mounted group of miniatures of the first five and an associated miniature ribbon bar, good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,200

D.S.C. London Gazette 1 October 1917.

O.B.E. London Gazette 9 January 1945: ‘Commander Joceline Heneage Drummond, D.S.C., R.N. (Retired), Assistant Secretary, Incorporated Soldiers’ Sailors’ and Airmen’s Help Society.’

Sold with original Admiralty letter granting restricted permission to wear 4th Class of the Nile, dated 3 December 1920.

Joceline Heneage Drummond joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet on 15 May 1905, and was promoted to Midshipman on 15 June 1905; Sub. Lieutenant, 15 August 1908; Lieutenant, 14 November 1909; Lieutenant-Commander, 15 November 1917. When the Great War broke out he was Navigating Lieutenant aboard H.M.S. Intrepid. He joined the minelayer Orvieto in March 1915, and the minelayer Wahine in May 1916, again as Navigating Lieutenant. Drummond was decorated for services in Wahine, a New Zealand steamer which had been employed in Gallipoli as a despatch vessel but, from July 1916 to April 1919, as a minelayer. During the course of 76 mining operations she laid 11,738 mines. A model of Wahine is in the Maritime Museum, Wellington, N.Z. Drummond was placed on the Retired List at his own request in September 1929.