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1. Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Dear Keith, Many thanks for that. Identifying the name of his vessel is a great help and will now allow me to check through other records. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Wood" To: Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > Hi Chris: > From the book Fringes of the Fleet and the DSC by RC White. In addition to > Bernard's information it shows Ernest Edward Breach---Skipper of Ocean > Rambler from 2
2. Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Hi Chris: From the book Fringes of the Fleet and the DSC by RC White. In addition to Bernard's information it shows Ernest Edward Breach---Skipper of Ocean Rambler from 21 Dec. 1916-Navy List Jan 1919. In Ocean Fisher-Navy List Feb. 1916. Hope this helps Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Woods" To: Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:45 PM Subject: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > Dear Bernard, > > I've been asked to find if
3. Lieutenant Frank Ogden [1]
Lieutenant Frank Ogden (Filed: 10/07/2006) Lieutenant Frank Ogden, who has died aged 84, was the diver of the midget submarine X-24, and responsible for laying the charges which destroyed a supply ship alongside a floating dock at Bergen, Norway, in April 1944. After the successful Operation Source the year before, in which the German battleship Tirpitz was subjected to a similar attack, the Admiralty determined to use midget submarines again. Ogden found himself sharing with Lt Max Shean, RANVR, Lt Joe B
4. RE: [GAL] Naval OBE - WW2 [1]
Chris, There is a Dudley George CLARK, described as TACdr (S), RNVR, who was awarded an OBE in the 1946 UK Birthday Honours (LG 13.6.46) when with HMS MAYINA. TACdr stands for Temporary Acting Commander, but I'm not sure about the "S" - it may mean "Supply", or perhaps "Special", or, ...... Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Woods [mailto:chris.woods45@tiscali.co.uk] > Sent: 16 July 2006 06:51 > To: GALLANTRY-AWARDS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GAL] Naval OBE - WW2 > > Dear Bernard, > > I
5. RE: [GAL] Albert Medals 1883 [1]
Chris, The citations are: CHARLES CHETWYND, collier, Baddesley, was one of the volunteers who descended into the mine after the explosion and rescued Rowland Till. Several volunteers went down, and going to the edge of the smoke called out to Till, but hearing no reply, returned to the surface. They were followed by Charles Chetwynd, William Pickering and John Clark, who also went to the edge of the smoke calling and listening. After some time they heard a groan, when Chetwynd and Pickering attempted to
6. RE: {not a subscriber} medals [1]
April, I don't see any way for you to advance this without getting his Army records as you don't know what award if any he received. Obtaining such records may not be easy, unless it is an uncommon name, or you can give more details. I regret that I do not know how to set about obtaining Army personnel records. Bernard de Neumann > -----Original Message----- > From: April [mailto:aprilfrank@springtime.plus.com] > Sent: 02 July 2006 14:46 > To: GALLANTRY-AWARDS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: {not a subscriber
7. Wing Commander 'Moose' Fumerton [obituary] [1]
Wing Commander 'Moose' Fumerton (Filed: 14/07/2006) Wing Cdr "Moose" Fumerton, who died on Monday aged 93, fought in the Battle of Britain and then became Canada's most successful night fighter pilot of the Second World War, winning two DFCs. With his inseparable observer and friend, Sergeant Pat Bing, Fumerton had already achieved successes over England and Egypt when he was sent to reinforce Malta at the height of the German onslaught in June 1942. He rapidly became the island's top-scoring night fighte
8. Naval OBE - WW2 [1]
Dear Bernard, I second salty enquiry if I may? I've also been asked if I can find anything about a Dudley Clark, possibly a commander RN, although not a career naval officer, who, during WW2, was involved in some shipboard trouble in the Far East, and as a result of his action was awarded an O.B.E. He spend some time on aircraft carriers during the war but after hostilities returned to civilian life. No further details forthcoming. He died some time ago. Again, any info. about his award etc., wi
9. Last Australian Gallipoli VC sold for AUD$1 million [1]
THE AUSTRALIAN Mystery bidder pays record $1m for last Gallipoli VC Tracy Ong 25jul06 AN anonymous bidder, believed to be media mogul Kerry Stokes, has paid a world record price of $1million for the last privately owned Gallipoli Victoria Cross and will donate the medal to the Australian War Memorial. It took less than a minute to sell lot 1078 at Bonhams & Goodman's Sydney auction house after bidding opened at $300,000. Adding the auctioneers' commission, the "prominent Australian" will pay $1,214,500 fo
10. Obit Holmes [1]
WWII fighter pilot ace Besby Holmes dies GREENBRAE, Calif. (AP) - Lt.-Col. Besby Frank Holmes, a Second World War fighter pilot who took part in the successful 1943 mission to kill the Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack, has died. He was 88. Holmes, who lived in San Rafael, died of a stroke July 23 at Marin General Hospital, according to the Marin County coroner's office. Holmes was a member of the 67th Pursuit Squadron, which flew fighter planes against the Japanese during the Guad
11. RE: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Skipper Ernest Edward BREACH, RNR, 195 WSA, was awarded a DSC, along with 34 others, "in recognition of their services in vessels of the Auxiliary Patrol between 1st January and 31st December 1917" (LG 6.4.1918) Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Woods [mailto:chris.woods45@tiscali.co.uk] > Sent: 16 July 2006 06:45 > To: GALLANTRY-AWARDS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > > Dear Bernard, > > I've been asked to find if there is any truth in a family storey about a
12. China's Only Normandy Survivor Awarded Legion d'Honneur [1]
China's Only Normandy Survivor Awarded Legion d'Honneur The only survivor of 24 Chinese naval officers, who participated in the Normandy D-Day landings 62 years ago, Huang Tingxin, received France's highest honor yesterday in recognition of his valor during World War II. Jean-Marin Schuh, French consul general in Shanghai, traveled to the veteran's home in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, to present the award. Huang, 88, suffers from a heart complaint and Parkinson's disease. A n
13. Re: [GAL] Albert Medals 1883 Baddesley Pit Explosion [1]
Dear Bernard, You've come up trumps again. Thank you very much and I'll try googling for the images. All the best, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard de Neumann" To: Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:44 AM Subject: RE: [GAL] Albert Medals 1883 > Chris, The citations are: > > CHARLES CHETWYND, collier, Baddesley, was one of the volunteers who > descended into the mine after the explosion and rescued Rowland Till... For this cons
14. Obit Rayner [1]
Wing-Commander 'Bob' Rayner July 15, 1914 - May 1, 2006 Coastal Command pilot who flew 1,500 hours of operational sorties and won the DFC for sinking a U-boat in the Norwegian Sea IN AN RAF career which spanned Coastal Command's wartime struggle to get to grips with the U-boat menace with the inadequate aircraft available to it in the early part of the conflict, to its eventual mastery of the skies above the oceans in the latter stages, "Bob" Rayner was part of the evolution of the antisubmarine t
15. Malta Hero Dies [1]
Wing Commander 'Moose' Fumerton (Filed: 14/07/2006) Wing Cdr "Moose" Fumerton, who died on Monday aged 93, fought in the Battle of Britain and then became Canada's most successful night fighter pilot of the Second World War, winning two DFCs. With his inseparable observer and friend, Sergeant Pat Bing, Fumerton had already achieved successes over England and Egypt when he was sent to reinforce Malta at the height of the German onslaught in June 1942. He rapidly became the island's top
16. Town pays tribute as top dog of war wins 'GC' medal [1]
Sat 22 Jul 2006 Town pays tribute as top dog of war wins 'GC' medal FRANK URQUHART A BRAVE dog who became a symbol of freedom and defiance for millions of Norwegians during the Second World War will today be honoured in the Scottish town where he died. Bamse, a St Bernard, will get the animals' George Cross. The dog arrived in Britain in 1940 on one of the ships in the Royal Norwegian Navy flotilla that carried King Hakon VII and members of his government into exile. Two years later, he arrived in
17. Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Eugene Ursual just phoned me to say he has a copy of the book which would cost $75.00 plus shipping charges, no taxes to the UK. Ted, Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Wood" To: Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > Hi Bernard > I purchased the book from a Canadian online medal and book dealer, Eugene > G. Ursual in the late 1990's for about $80.00. Published and distributed > by Dix Noonan W
18. RE: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Keith, Thanks, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: K Wood [mailto:krwood@shaw.ca] > Sent: 17 July 2006 18:14 > To: GALLANTRY-AWARDS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > > Hi Bernard > I purchased the book from a Canadian online medal and book dealer, Eugene > G. > Ursual in the late 1990's for about $80.00. Published and distributed by > Dix Noonan Webb Ltd., 1997. 1 Old Bond St., London, W1X3TD(although I am > not > positive they are still in business under this name)
19. Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Hi Bernard I purchased the book from a Canadian online medal and book dealer, Eugene G. Ursual in the late 1990's for about $80.00. Published and distributed by Dix Noonan Webb Ltd., 1997. 1 Old Bond St., London, W1X3TD(although I am not positive they are still in business under this name). Following is a description from the fly leaf: "This book supplements Mr. W.H. Fevyer's basic work, The Distinguished Service Cross 1901-1938. His book is a complete, chronological and comprehensive treatment of t
20. Posthumous DSO? [1]
This is snipped from a longer e-mail I received. "-----Original Message----- From: graeme boxall [mailto:graeme@gboxall.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: 05 July 2006 18:21 To: Bernard de Neumann Subject: Re: Mercantile Marine officers in WW1 I have another question for you. Put your Gallantry Awards and Decorations hat on. Last July Ann and I went to Colditz. The visit got me re-reading all my books on Oflag IVC, and I noted that Michael Sinclair (aka The Red Fox), who had made multiple escape attempts from a
21. Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Eugene Ursual gave me the email address of the British firm. It's Pierce@DNW.CO.UK Ted, Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Wood" To: Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > Hi Bernard > I purchased the book from a Canadian online medal and book dealer, Eugene > G. Ursual in the late 1990's for about $80.00. Published and distributed > by Dix Noonan Webb Ltd., 1997. 1 Old Bond St., London, W1X3TD(
22. Obit Swift [1]
Commander Donald Swift (Filed: 28/07/2006) Commander Donald Swift, who has died aged 91, was awarded a DSC and Bar for minesweeping and navigation during the Second World War, then worked in the East Coast fishing industry. On April 30 1940 Swift rescued survivors from the sinking, off Yarmouth, of the First World War Hunt class minesweeper Dunoon, after a rogue mine blew up under her bridge, killing the captain and two officers. Swift, who had just gone to supervise work on the sweep deck, assume
23. SINCLAIR DSO (Posthumous?) [1]
In the book "Colditz", by Henry Chancellor, published in 2001 by Hodder and Stoughton, there is a reference to an award of a DSO to a Subaltern Sinclair. On page 328 it says: "...After the war Sinclair was awarded the DSO, the only subaltern to posthumously receive the decoration for escaping during the Second World War. His grave is in Charlottenburg Cemetery, Berlin, number 10.1.14"* Not that the word "only", although at first sight applying to "posthumously", is restricted applies to escaping, and the
24. Re: [GAL] Naval OBE - WW2 [1]
Dear Bernard, Thank you very much - that will give me a good starting point regards, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard de Neumann" To: Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:54 AM Subject: RE: [GAL] Naval OBE - WW2 > Chris, There is a Dudley George CLARK, described as TACdr (S), RNVR, who was > awarded an OBE in the 1946 UK Birthday Honours (LG 13.6.46) when with HMS > MAYINA. TACdr stands for Temporary Acting Commander, but I'm not
25. Re: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat [1]
Dear Bernard, You'r a star - again, many thanks, the fami;ly will be very pleased to know his award is genuine, all the best, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard de Neumann" To: Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:23 AM Subject: RE: [GAL] D.S.C. for sinking U-boat > Skipper Ernest Edward BREACH, RNR, 195 WSA, was awarded a DSC, along with 34 > others, "in recognition of their services in vessels of the Auxiliary Patrol > between 1st
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