Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Submarine service’ D.S.M. awarded to Able Seaman H. J. McCreedy, Royal Navy, who served in H.M. Submarines F3 and H24 in 1918

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (238018 H. J. Mc Creedy, A.B. H.M. Submarines. 1918.) contact wear and pitting, otherwise good fine and better £700-£900

D.S.M. London Gazette 29 October 1918: ‘For services in submarines.’

The recommendation states: ‘Served in H.M. Submarine F3 from 6 February 1918 and in H.M. Submarine H24 26 April 1918 to 23 April 1919.’

Herbert John McCreedy was born at Battle, Sussex, on 22 August 1891, and was a Greenwich School Boy when he joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Ganges on 10 January 1907. He was rated Able Seaman from June 1910 and during the war served aboard H.M. Ships Cormorant, Blenheim, Adamant, Egmont and Queen, before joining the submarine service in about January 1916. He was pensioned as a Petty Officer on 21 August 1931.