Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.M. group of six awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer F. E. Nicholls, Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (270774 C.E.R.A.2Cl., H.M.S. Oracle 1917); British War and Victory Medals (270774 C.E.R.A.2Cl., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (270774 C.E.R.A.2Cl., H.M.S. Apollo) generally good very fine (6) £400-450

D.S.M. London Gazette 8 February 1918: ‘For services in destroyer and torpedo boat flotillas during the period ending 31st December 1917.’

On 12 August 1917 the destroyer Oracle rammed and sank the German submarine U-44.