Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Petty Officer D. Gibson, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.18221 C.P.O., R.N.); 1914-15 Star (J.18221 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.18221 A.B., R.N.); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.18221 P.O., H.M.S. Volunteer) mounted court style as worn, nearly very fine and better (8)
£800-900

D.S.M. London Gazette 1 July 1941. ‘For outstanding zeal, Patience and cheerfulness, and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld’.

David Gibson was born in Crawford, Lanarkshire on 3 May 1896. A Labourer by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy in June 1912 as a Boy 2nd Class on the Ganges Training Establishment. There he was advanced to Boy 1st Class in October 1912. He served on the battleship Thunderer, April 1913-September 1917, being promoted to Ordinary Seaman in May 1914 and Able Seaman in January 1915. As such he was present at the battle of Jutland, 30 May/1 June 1916, when the battleship formed part of the 2nd Battle Squadron. For the remainder of the war he was based on Vivid, September-October 1917; Defiance, October 1917-April 1918, and Blenheim and Goshawk, April 1918-January 1919. Gibson was promoted to Leading Seaman in February 1919 whilst at Vivid and to Petty Officer in January 1921 when on Resolution. Later as a Chief Petty Officer he was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935. At the same rank at Cochrane (Rosyth), he was awarded the D.S.M. in the 1941 Birthday Honours. With copied service paper and other research.