Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Minesweeping’ D.S.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Herbert Klugh, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917 and additionally inscribed ‘Lieut. H. Klugh R.N.V.R. 1st Apr. to 1st Dec. 1917’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. H. Klugh, R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. Klugh. R.N.V.R.) the Victory Medal with naming erased, mounted for display, good very fine (4) £600-£800

D.S.C,. London Gazette 17 April 1918: ‘For services in minesweeping operations for the period 1st April 1917 to 31st December 1917.’

Herbery Klugh was appointed as Temporary Sub-Lieutenant R.N.V.R. to the Yacht Zarefa on 4 December 1914, and to the Sagitta on 30 December 1914. He was promoted Temporary Lieutenant R.N.V.R. on 9 September 1915, and appointed to Pekin for duty at Grimsby on 12 September 1915. He won the D.S.C. for minesweeping operations in 1917, and was demobilised on 11 May 1919.