The Collection of British Orders, Decorations and Medals formed by the late Fred Rockwood

A scarce Great War siege gun operations D.S.M. awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class A. E. Miller, Royal Navy, who was wounded at Dunkirk in July 1916

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (170358 A. E. Miller, P.O. 1 Cl., Siege Guns, Belgium), minor official correction to ‘Belgium’, good very fine £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Orders, Decorations and Medals formed by the late Fred Rockwood.

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D.S.M. London Gazette 7 August 1915:

‘For services with naval guns on shore in Belgium.’

Albert Ernest Miller was born in Yorkshire in May 1876 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in November 1892. Attaining Petty Officer status in early 1903, he was serving in the battleship H.M.S. Mars on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, but transferred to Siege Gun duties in Belgium in February 1915, the same month in which he was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal.

Subsequently awarded the D.S.M., he was also mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 7 August 1915, refers), and awarded the French Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 2 July 1916, refers), the latter distinction possibly in respect of the occasion he was wounded at Dunkirk on 10 July 1916. Miller was demobilised in June 1919; sold with copied service record.