Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War D.S.C. group of six awarded to Commissioned Engineer F. J. Doy, Royal Navy, for services aboard the minesweeper H.M.S. Harrier

Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1942 and hallmarked London 1941, on original investiture pin and in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (M.4808 F. J. Doy. E.R.A.4 R.N.) this pair mounted as worn; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, these three unnamed as issued, good very fine or better (6) £1,000-£1,200

D.S.C. London Gazette 1 January 1942: New Year Honours List - ‘Commissioned Engineer Frederick John Doy, H.M.S. Harrier.’ Award presented at an Investiture held on 30 June 1942.

Frederick John Doy was born at Southwold, Suffolk, on 2 June 1896. He joined the Royal Navy from school as a Boy Artificer aboard H.M.S. Indus on 19 July 1912. He remained at the various training establishments for E.R.A’s and seamanship, namely Indus, Fisgard and Vivid II until 24 August 1916, when he joined the newly launched battlecruiser Repulse which, with her sister ship Renown, were the world's fastest capital ships upon completion. He remained in Repulse until May 1918, but the only combat he saw was in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917. After a brief month aboard the destroyer depot ship Woolwich, he saw the remainder of the war out at H.M.S. Columbine, naval base at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth. Doy was advanced to E.R.A. 3 in April 1920, to E.R.A. 2 in April 1924, and was promoted to Acting Warrant Engineer on 1 July 1928. He was promoted to Commissioned Engineer on 1 July 1938, and was appointed to the minesweeper Harrier in November 1939. On 30 April 1943, he left Harrier and joined the destroyer Ursa as Acting Lieutenant (E) and was still serving in her in September 1945. Ursa’s skipper, Commander D. B. Wyburd, D.S.C., won the D.S.O. for the part he played in the operations along the French Atlantic coast which culminated in the final destruction of the German navy there during the Battle of Audierne Bay. In October 1944 she was refitted for service in the Far East and joined the British Pacific Fleet where she served until 1945. She then returned to the United Kingdom and was paid off in 1946.

Sold with copied record of service to 1928 and a good original portrait photograph.