An Unusual Great War D.S.C. Group of Nine to Lieutenant H.F. Addenbrooke-Kent, Royal Naval Reserve, Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London, 1919), the reverse privately engraved, '16.10.17 H.F. Addenbrooke-Kent 23.9.19'; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Egypt, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast Badge, by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, the last slightly chipped in places, otherwise good very fine and better

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An Unusual Great War D.S.C. Group of Nine to Lieutenant H.F. Addenbrooke-Kent, Royal Naval Reserve, Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London, 1919), the reverse privately engraved, '16.10.17 H.F. Addenbrooke-Kent 23.9.19'; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Egypt, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast Badge, by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, the last slightly chipped in places, otherwise good very fine and better
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Lot Essay

D.S.C. London Gazette 20.2.1919. Recommendation states 'In recognition of his services in going into a burning ammunition dump to extinguish a fire on 16 October 1917'.

Egyptian Order of the Nile London Gazette 17.3.1919.

Lieutenant Harold Francis Addenbrooke-Kent, D.S.C., was serving in H.M. Drifter Blossom on, and off the coast of Palestine at the time of the above incident.