Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry

A Second War D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Stoker Petty Officer C. R. F. Hesse, Royal Navy, who was awarded the D.S.M. for services with the Destroyer H.M.S. Onslow
Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Temp. Sto. P.O. C. R. F. Hesse. D/KX.86857.) engraved naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp North Africa 1942-3; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (D/KX.86857 C. R. F. Hesse. D.S.M. P.O.S.M. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (KX.86857 C. R. F. Hesse. D.S.M. P.O.S.M. H.M.S. Dalrymple.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, good very fine (8) £700-£900
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D.S.M. London Gazette 14 June 1945.
Charles Rupert Francis Hesse served during the Second World War as a temporary Stoker Petty Officer, was awarded the D.S.M for service aboard the O-Class destroyer and Flotilla leader H.M.S. Onslow.
The original recommendation for Hesse’s D.S.M. has not survived; however, the surviving recommendations for other members of H.M.S. Onslow awarded a Decoration for late 1944 to early 1945 were all for actions against a German convoy on the night of the 11-12 January 1945. Hesse’s D.S.M., which was a Birthday Honours award, would have been for general good service during the period.
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