Auction Catalogue

5 March 1996

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 469

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5 March 1996

Hammer Price:
£580

A Zeebrugge D.S.M. group of four awarded to Able Seaman A. Carnochan, Royal Navy, wounded whilst a member of ‘D’ Company of the Seaman Storming Party
Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J32306, A.B., Nl. Bde. Zeebrugge - Ostend. 22-3 Apl. 1918); 1914-15 Star (J.32306, Boy 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (A.B., R.N.) good very fine (4)

D.S.M. London Gazette 23 July, 1918.
‘D’ Company of the Seaman Storming Party, in
Iris II, was under the command of Lieutenant G. N. Bradford who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions in placing the anchor on the Mole at Zeebrugge.