Lot Essay
D.S.M. London Gazette 11.12.1918 'For services in Grand Fleet Destroyers between 1 January and 30 June 1918'.
Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Percy Leopold Whalebone, D.S.M., was born in Sheerness, Kent in July 1878 and entered the Royal Navy as an E.R.A. 4th Class in Pembroke II in June 1899. Having been advanced to E.R.A. 2nd Class in 1905, he was reduced to E.R.A. 4th Class for 'disobedience' in 1909, but the outbreak of hostilities found him back at C.E.R.A. 2nd Class and serving aboard the Battleship Vengeance, in which ship he participated in operations in the Dardanelles until July 1915. Next appointed to the Battleship Jupiter, in whom he served off the Belgian coast until the end of 1916, Whalebone finished the War in the recently launched Destroyer Valhalla. He had, meanwhile, gained further advancement to C.E.R.A. 1st Class and was awarded the L.S. and G.C. Medal in 1921, the year in which he was pensioned.
Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class Percy Leopold Whalebone, D.S.M., was born in Sheerness, Kent in July 1878 and entered the Royal Navy as an E.R.A. 4th Class in Pembroke II in June 1899. Having been advanced to E.R.A. 2nd Class in 1905, he was reduced to E.R.A. 4th Class for 'disobedience' in 1909, but the outbreak of hostilities found him back at C.E.R.A. 2nd Class and serving aboard the Battleship Vengeance, in which ship he participated in operations in the Dardanelles until July 1915. Next appointed to the Battleship Jupiter, in whom he served off the Belgian coast until the end of 1916, Whalebone finished the War in the recently launched Destroyer Valhalla. He had, meanwhile, gained further advancement to C.E.R.A. 1st Class and was awarded the L.S. and G.C. Medal in 1921, the year in which he was pensioned.