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Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including Board of Trade Continuous Certificate of Discharge, with entries for August 1919 to August 1922; Membership Booklets of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union and Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia, the former with entries for January 1920 to August 1922, and the latter April 1924 to June 1928; a Melbourne Harbour Trust (Engineering Branch) Certificate of Service (dated 24.4.1929); a Commonwealth of Australia 'Peace Officer' Certificate of Discharge (date 4.9.1942); a British Ministry of Pensions letter referring to the recipient's pensionable disabilities as 'gunshot wound head and right arm, deafness and nasal obstruction' (dated 10.5.1950), and other related correspondence.
C.G.M. London Gazette 23.7.1918. Recommendation states 'This man remained at his station by the hand wheel in Iphigenia, armed with a box of ammonal and detonators with which it was intended to destroy the guns, until after the cutter had left. The Commanding Officer of Iphigenia had previously told him that he would tell him when to destroy the gun but overlooked it and left the ship after firing the mines. Davis remained at his post until the ship sank under him, when he jumped into the water and swam to the boats'.
French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 28.8.1918 'For services in the operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend'.
Leading Seaman Albert Oscar Davis, C.G.M.,, was born in Lambeth, Surrey in September 1880 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1896. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in September 1898 and to Able Seaman one year later, he served off South Africa in H.M.S. Terpsichore from April 1901, qualifying for the 'Cape Colony' and 'South Africa 1901' clasps and not that for 'Natal' as presently attached to his Queen's South Africa Medal (P.R.O. ADM171/53 refers). Joining H.M.S. Duncan in August 1908, he went on to qualify for his second award for services in the Messina Earthquake of that year. Duncan was discharged ashore, 'time expired' in late 1910 but instantly rejoined for a second term, being promoted to Leading Seaman in June 1911.
The outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 found him aboard H.M.S. Lancaster, with which ship he remained until July 1915, soon afterwards joining the Zinnia. The latter vessel, also known as the Colleen, enjoyed a colourful career as the Headquarters Ship at Queenstown for Q-Ships, Davis remaining with her until November 1917. As related above, however, his moment of glory occured during his next appointment aboard the Iphigenia. Unusually the Recommendation for his C.G.M. omits mention of the fact that he received gun shot wounds (and a fracture), an error put right on his service record (P.R.O. ADM188/322 refers). Davis was invalided in August 1919 and later settled in Australia.
C.G.M. London Gazette 23.7.1918. Recommendation states 'This man remained at his station by the hand wheel in Iphigenia, armed with a box of ammonal and detonators with which it was intended to destroy the guns, until after the cutter had left. The Commanding Officer of Iphigenia had previously told him that he would tell him when to destroy the gun but overlooked it and left the ship after firing the mines. Davis remained at his post until the ship sank under him, when he jumped into the water and swam to the boats'.
French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 28.8.1918 'For services in the operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend'.
Leading Seaman Albert Oscar Davis, C.G.M.,, was born in Lambeth, Surrey in September 1880 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1896. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in September 1898 and to Able Seaman one year later, he served off South Africa in H.M.S. Terpsichore from April 1901, qualifying for the 'Cape Colony' and 'South Africa 1901' clasps and not that for 'Natal' as presently attached to his Queen's South Africa Medal (P.R.O. ADM171/53 refers). Joining H.M.S. Duncan in August 1908, he went on to qualify for his second award for services in the Messina Earthquake of that year. Duncan was discharged ashore, 'time expired' in late 1910 but instantly rejoined for a second term, being promoted to Leading Seaman in June 1911.
The outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 found him aboard H.M.S. Lancaster, with which ship he remained until July 1915, soon afterwards joining the Zinnia. The latter vessel, also known as the Colleen, enjoyed a colourful career as the Headquarters Ship at Queenstown for Q-Ships, Davis remaining with her until November 1917. As related above, however, his moment of glory occured during his next appointment aboard the Iphigenia. Unusually the Recommendation for his C.G.M. omits mention of the fact that he received gun shot wounds (and a fracture), an error put right on his service record (P.R.O. ADM188/322 refers). Davis was invalided in August 1919 and later settled in Australia.