IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141293
accession number:	CM.1199-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The Distinguished Service Medal was instituted in 1914 at the same time as the Distinguished Service Cross; like that award it recognised conspicuous gallantry at sea in the face of the enemy, but was awarded to those below the rank of officer. In 1993 this distinction was erased and the DSM discontinued.
This example was awarded to Leading Seaman J. E. Knights of the Auxiliary Patrol. He served aboard HMS Erna, a drifter taken up as an anti-submarine patrol vessel at the start of the Great War of 1914-1918. She continued in service for a few years after the War, but as the Auxiliary Patrol did not, Knights's award was presumably made, as is almost required for the issue of the medal, in war service.
Lester Watson purchased the medal from the London dealers Baldwin at some point before 1928.
title:	Distinguished Service Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141293





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1910 - 1928
creation date earliest:	1910
creation date latest:	1928

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: George V (1910-36)
maker: United Kingdom
maker: GEORGIUS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND IMP:

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 35.9

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 34.73



CITATIONS
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Medal Yearbook 2001
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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