Orders, Decorations and Medals

An Operation Torch D.S.M. group of nine awarded to Yeoman of Signals Dick Thorburn, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.113599 Yeo. Sig.) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Y.S. H.M.S. Quebec) very fine and better (9) £300-350

D.S.M. London Gazette 4 April 1943: ‘For bravery, endurance and devotion to duty in North African waters.’

Yeoman of Signals Dick Thorburn served aboard H.M.S. Royal Ulsterman for Operation Torch, the naval invasion of North Africa. This large Landing Ship conveyed more than 400 officers and 8,000 troops during the landings and went on subsequently to serve in the Salerno landing as Headquarters ship. H.M.S. Quebec was a landing craft base at Inverary. Sold with some additional research.