A Great War Naval D.S.O. group of four to Lieutenant Commander Mansell Brabazon Fiennes Colvile

A Great War Naval D.S.O. group of four to Lieutenant Commander Mansell Brabazon Fiennes Colvile, comprising Distinguished Service Order (G V), silver-gilt and enamel, 1914-15 star (Lieut. M. B. E. Colvile, R.N.), War and Victory medals (Lt. Commr.), brooch mounted. Very fine, War medal deeply toned.

D.S.O., supplement to London Gazette, 11 April, 1919, listed under "Honours for Services in Destroyers employed on Convoy, Escort and Patrol Duties between the 1st July and 11th November, 1918", whilst his records state, "in recognition of services in Irish Sea Flotilla". He was invested with his DSO at Buckingham Palace on 12 May, 1920.

Mansel Brabazon Fiennes Colvile (1887-1942) was the son of Gerald Henry and Mary Eleanor Colvile. He entered the Navy on 15 September, 1901 and was a 2nd Lieutenant on HMS Cornwall at the outbreak of the Great War. The ship served in the Battle of the Falklands and was responsible for the sinking of the Leipzig. She was next sent to support the Dardanelles Campaign and then to the China Station. On return to the UK Colvile was appointed Lieutenant-Commander (31 December, 1916). He retired from the navy with the rank of Commander on 19 January, 1930. One of his two sons, Captain Philip Antony Fiennes Colvile of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was killed in Normandy, 16 July 1944.

Photocopied records sold with the lot.