Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Dover Patrol D.S.M. awarded to Yeoman of Signals R. Douglas, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (203927 R. Douglas, Yeo. Sigs., “Whirlwind”, Dover Patrol 1918) minor contact marks, good very fine £400-450

D.S.M. London Gazette 20 September 1918. ‘The following awards have been approved for services in monitors and destroyers of the Dover Patrol, between the 1st January and the 30th June 1918.’

H.M.S. Whirlwind was an ‘Admiralty W Class’ destroyer of 1300 tons, built at Swan Hunter and launched on 15 December 1917. On 5 July 1940, she was sunk by the U.34 to the south-west of Ireland.