Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer D. C. Gedny, H.M.S. Moresby, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (237845 D. C. Gedny, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (237845 D. C. Gedny. L.S. R.N.) nearly very fine (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Battle of Jutland.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004.

The destroyer H.M.S. Moresby was launched on 20 November 1915 and was part of the 13th Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Jutland.

Duncan Chaston Gedny was born in Occold, Suffolk, on 24 February 1891 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 29 November 1906. Advanced Able Seaman on 9 April 1910, he served during the Great War borne on the books of the destroyer depot ship H.M.S. Woolwich, and from April 1916 until August 1917 served in the destroyer H.M.S. Druid. Promoted Leading Seaman on 1 April 1918, and Petty Officer on 1 October 1922, he was invalided from the Service on 6 April 1927.