Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Second War D.S.M. awarded to Petty Officer L. G. C. Rose, H.M.S. Greyhound, for the successful sinking of an Italian Submarine in March 1941, killed when his ship was sunk two months later

Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.102315 L. G. C. Rose, P.O. R.N.) impressed naming; together with related 1914-15 Star (297788 F. T. Lacey, S.P.O. R.N.) and Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (W. G. Rose, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Furious) extremely fine (3) £400-500

D.S.M. London Gazette 8 July 1941 ‘For courage and skill in a successful attack on an Italian Submarine.’

The destroyer Greyhound, Cdr. W. R. Marshall-A’Deane, D.S.O., D.S.C. A.M., was bombed and sunk on May 22nd, 1941, when acting with a force under Admiral King engaged in preventing the passage of an Italian convoy from Greece to Crete. The convoy was strongly protected by German dive-bombers which succeeded in hitting Greyhound at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The ship was off the island of Antikithera when she sank. Of her compliment of 174 a total of 3 officers and 88 ratings were picked up by the destroyers Kandahar and Kingston. Those killed numbered six officers, including the Captain, and 74 ratings, including Petty Officer Rose. Four ratings were picked up by the enemy and became prisoners of war. Commander Marshall-A’Deane had initially been picked up by the Kandahar but, notwithstanding the ordeal he had already been through that day, he dived over Kandahar’s side to help men in the water after the destroyer Fiji was hit. In the gathering darkness he was not seen again. He received the Posthumous award of the Albert Medal.