A Great War ‘Tigris Gunboats’ D.S.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Hugh Lincoln, Royal Naval Reserve, for good work while in command of H.M. ships Comet and Flycatcher, and as forward observing officer under fire; he was later in H.M.S. Zinnia from September 1917

Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. H. Lincoln. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. H. Lincoln. R.N.R.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £1,200-£1,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to H.M.S. Zinnia.

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D.S.C. London Gazette 21 September 1917: ‘In recognition of services as mentioned in the foregoing despatch (The Tigris, December 1916 to March 1917):- Lieut. Hugh Lincoln, R.N.R., H.M.S. Flycatcher:
‘For good work while in command of H.M. ships Comet and Flycatcher, and he has carried out the duty of forward observing Officer under fire in a very satisfactory manner.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917:
‘For the advance on Kut, 24-26 February 1917’.

Hugh Lincoln was appointed Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in H.M.S. Digby on 24 November 1914. Later in 1915 he was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Flycatcher, a Thorneycroft motorboat that had been captured from the Turks at Nasariya on 19 November 1914, and put into service with the Royal Navy as an armed despatch vessel on the river Tigris. After distinguished service in gunboats on the Tigris in 1916-17, gaining a mention in despatches and a D.S.C., Lincoln was appointed to the Azalea Class sloop Zinnia on 6 September 1917, and served in her under Commander G. F. W. Wilson until April 1918, when he was appointed to H.M.S. Albion.