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Auction archive: Lot number 7

A Rare WWI Submariner’s DSM & LSGC Group of 5 awarded to Chief Petty Officer Henry …

Auction 05.06.2013
5 Jun 2013
Estimate
£2,000 - £2,500
ca. US$3,096 - US$3,870
Price realised:
£2,400
ca. US$3,715
Auction archive: Lot number 7

A Rare WWI Submariner’s DSM & LSGC Group of 5 awarded to Chief Petty Officer Henry …

Auction 05.06.2013
5 Jun 2013
Estimate
£2,000 - £2,500
ca. US$3,096 - US$3,870
Price realised:
£2,400
ca. US$3,715
Beschreibung:

A Rare WWI Submariner’s DSM & LSGC Group of 5 awarded to Chief Petty Officer Henry Joseph Ling, Royal Navy, awarded the DSM for distinguished service aboard Submarine E19 between October 1916 and January 1918 in the Baltic, comprising: Distinguished Service Medal, G V R (228181 H J Ling, P.O. H.M. Submarines. Baltic Sea. 1917.), 1914-15 Star (L.S.), British War & Victory Medals (Act. C.P.O.), Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, GVR (P.O. H.M.S. Ganges.); medals officially impressed, group swing mounted on bar as worn with reverse pin for wear. Attractively toned, a little polished, pleasing very fine. (5) DSM London Gazette 26.04.1918 - “In recognition of distinguished services performed in difficult circumstances and during a long period in British submarines operating in the Baltic Sea.” CPO Henry Joseph Ling was born in Deptford, Kent, on the 29th of February 1888, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard HMS Impregnable on the 3rd of September 1903, at the age of 15. Moving steadily through the ranks, he reached Ordinary Seaman on the 1st of March 1906, and Able Seaman on the 14th of December that year. At the outbreak of hostilities in WWI he was rated as Leading Seaman, and served aboard HMS Bonaventure (submarine depot ship) between the 5th of March 1914 and 6th of September 1916. He was promoted to Petty Officer on the 20th of January 1916, and served with HMS Thames (submarine depot ship), and is believed to have been Coxswain aboard submarine C27, serving in the Baltic, until September that year. After a month at the submarine base HMS Dolphin, he was sent aboard the submarine E19 as Petty Officer on the 10th of October 1916. The Baltic Sea was an important theatre of war, as important shipments of Iron Ore from Sweden to Germany were of strategic importance to the German war effort. British submarines regularly operated in the area to disrupt these shipments, and the submarine E19 gained some repute in this area during WWI, when under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Francis Cromie it successfully sank 4 vessels in one day on the 10th-11th October 1915, all without the use of functioning torpedoes, and without a single casualty. Petty Officer Ling served aboard this vessel for a period of 15 months, and returning to HMS Dolphin on the 15th of January 1918, he narrowly avoided having been present when this submarine (and six others) were intentionally scuttled at Helsinki to avoid them falling into enemy hands. He was later awarded the DSM on the 26th of April, 1918, for his services during this period. Having returned to HMS Dolphin, he remained there until being sent aboard HMS Ambrose with Submarine L5 on the 1th of May 1918, serving aboard this vessel until the 12th of June 1919 and his being demobilised. He signed up the next day for a further 5 years’ service, and appears to have continued serving aboard submarines, including two six-month periods with HMS Cyclops and the submarine M2. He later joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. He was called up to serve in WWII, again as a CPO and presumably in a training capacity, but after 12 months he was finally discharged as unfit for further service on the 22nd of February 1941, at the age of 53. Sold with a quantity of original documentation on vellum and waxed paper, two ribbon bars reflecting his entitlement in WWI and later in WWII, the latter showing additional entitlement to the 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Defence Medal & War Medal (the latter sold with group, in original box), and contemporary silver Bosun’s Call - this lot still worthy of further research.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

A Rare WWI Submariner’s DSM & LSGC Group of 5 awarded to Chief Petty Officer Henry Joseph Ling, Royal Navy, awarded the DSM for distinguished service aboard Submarine E19 between October 1916 and January 1918 in the Baltic, comprising: Distinguished Service Medal, G V R (228181 H J Ling, P.O. H.M. Submarines. Baltic Sea. 1917.), 1914-15 Star (L.S.), British War & Victory Medals (Act. C.P.O.), Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, GVR (P.O. H.M.S. Ganges.); medals officially impressed, group swing mounted on bar as worn with reverse pin for wear. Attractively toned, a little polished, pleasing very fine. (5) DSM London Gazette 26.04.1918 - “In recognition of distinguished services performed in difficult circumstances and during a long period in British submarines operating in the Baltic Sea.” CPO Henry Joseph Ling was born in Deptford, Kent, on the 29th of February 1888, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard HMS Impregnable on the 3rd of September 1903, at the age of 15. Moving steadily through the ranks, he reached Ordinary Seaman on the 1st of March 1906, and Able Seaman on the 14th of December that year. At the outbreak of hostilities in WWI he was rated as Leading Seaman, and served aboard HMS Bonaventure (submarine depot ship) between the 5th of March 1914 and 6th of September 1916. He was promoted to Petty Officer on the 20th of January 1916, and served with HMS Thames (submarine depot ship), and is believed to have been Coxswain aboard submarine C27, serving in the Baltic, until September that year. After a month at the submarine base HMS Dolphin, he was sent aboard the submarine E19 as Petty Officer on the 10th of October 1916. The Baltic Sea was an important theatre of war, as important shipments of Iron Ore from Sweden to Germany were of strategic importance to the German war effort. British submarines regularly operated in the area to disrupt these shipments, and the submarine E19 gained some repute in this area during WWI, when under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Francis Cromie it successfully sank 4 vessels in one day on the 10th-11th October 1915, all without the use of functioning torpedoes, and without a single casualty. Petty Officer Ling served aboard this vessel for a period of 15 months, and returning to HMS Dolphin on the 15th of January 1918, he narrowly avoided having been present when this submarine (and six others) were intentionally scuttled at Helsinki to avoid them falling into enemy hands. He was later awarded the DSM on the 26th of April, 1918, for his services during this period. Having returned to HMS Dolphin, he remained there until being sent aboard HMS Ambrose with Submarine L5 on the 1th of May 1918, serving aboard this vessel until the 12th of June 1919 and his being demobilised. He signed up the next day for a further 5 years’ service, and appears to have continued serving aboard submarines, including two six-month periods with HMS Cyclops and the submarine M2. He later joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. He was called up to serve in WWII, again as a CPO and presumably in a training capacity, but after 12 months he was finally discharged as unfit for further service on the 22nd of February 1941, at the age of 53. Sold with a quantity of original documentation on vellum and waxed paper, two ribbon bars reflecting his entitlement in WWI and later in WWII, the latter showing additional entitlement to the 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Defence Medal & War Medal (the latter sold with group, in original box), and contemporary silver Bosun’s Call - this lot still worthy of further research.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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