Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant G. K. Twiss, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.); together with memorial plaque (Guy Kemble Twiss) good very fine or better (4) £180-220

Lieutenant Guy Kemble Twiss was killed whilst in command of H.M.S. Tartar, when she was sunk by a mine on 17 June 1917. The following is extracted from The Dover Patrol, by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon: ‘The mining of H.M.S. Tartar was an accident that should not have happened, although no blame attached to her officers. Being quite new to the patrol and the various danger areas, her Captain told the destroyer that was accompanying him, whose officers knew the patrol well, to lead down the Channel between the Bassure de Bas and the French coast. This she did, but went inside a buoy marking a danger area, with the result that the Tartar was mined. She was, however, towed in safely.’ Sold with further research detail.