Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Minesweeping operations’ D.S.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant W. W. Storey, Royal Naval Reserve

Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917, reverse inscribed, ‘1st Lieut. W. W. Storey, R.N.R., Invested Nov. 7th 1917, Buckingham Palace’, in Garrard, London case of issue; 1914-15 Star (S. Lt., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut., R.N.R.); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and ename, in Louis Aucoc, Pais case of issue, enamel damage to arms; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917; with riband bar, very fine and better (6) £1200-1600

D.S.C. London Gazette 2 July 1917. ‘... in recognition of their services in Mine-Sweeping operations between the 1st July, 1916, and the 31st March, 1917’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1917 & 17 October 1919.

Wilfrid Walter Storey served as a Sub-Lieutenant and Lieutenant, R.N.R., based at H.M.S. Attentive III (Dover), engaged in mine-sweeping duties with the Trawler Patrol, Dover Patrol, from July 1915- April 1917. Post-war he served on the Hall Line S.S. City of Baroda.

Sold with bestowal document for the Legion of Honour, dated 1 March 1919, for ‘Dragage du Hâvre’; two M.I.D. certificates; Certificate of Competency as Extra Master for Foreign-going Steamships only, dated 23 February 1920; together with other papers. Also with a photocopy of Swept Channels, by Captain Taprell Dorling. In the latter, Lieutenant Storey is mentioned (pages 318 & 357) as being the right-hand man of Commander Colin S. Inglis D.S.O., R.N., who in December 1918 was commanding 16 drifters used for mine clearance off the Belgian coast; Lieutenant W. W. Storey, D.S.C., R.N.R., being said to have had great experiance in minesweeping during the war round about Dover and Dunkirk. .