Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Commander W. A. Dumbleton, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ord., H.M.S. Gibraltar); 1914-15 Star (Mte., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.); Defence and War Medals, generally good very fine (6) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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William Albert Dumbleton was born at Kensington, London in June 1883 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in March 1900. He subsequently witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Gibraltar off South Africa during the Boer War and had been advanced to Mate, R.N., by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, which event found him aboard the destroyer Cossack. In December 1914, however, he transferred to another Dover Patrol destroyer, the Afridi, aboard which ship he served until February 1917, gaining advancement to Lieutenant, and, in the course of his next commission aboard the destroyer Myngs, he witnessed action against an enemy flotilla off Dunkirk in March 1918, and lent support to the Zeebrugge Raid in the following month. Dumbleton’s final wartime appointment was as captain of the patrol vessel P. 37, and he was placed on the Retired List in the course of 1922. His advancement to Commander was confirmed on his “second retirement” in 1946, following service at the Anti-Gas School, Pembroke for the duration of hostilities.