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A 1917 D.S.M. for Action with Enemy Submarine in Bristol Channel

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A 1917 D.S.M. for Action with Enemy Submarine in Bristol Channel

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A 1917 D.S.M. for Action with Enemy Submarine in Bristol Channel

G.V.R. (S.D. 1133. A. REILLY, DK. HD. R.N.R. BRISTOL CHANNEL. 22, DEC. 1917). Naming is impressed. Dark patina, light contact, surface wear, very fine. Accompanied by two pages containing copies of his Service Records from the National Archives. Footnote: Arthur Reilly was born in Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland on July 15, 1882, the son of William Reilly and Hannah Reilly. He enlisted with the Royal Naval Reserve on May 28, 1915, later serving aboard HMS Idaho on November 6, 1917, a steam yacht requisitioned by the Royal Navy in April 1915 and fitted with a machine gun for use as a patrol vessel, based at Milford Haven, Wales. Reilly was awarded his DSM, as mentioned in the London Gazette on February 22, 1918, "For services in action with enemy submarines." on December 22, 1917. It was possibly awarded for services when S.S. Hunsbrook was torpedoed by a U-boat in the Bristol Channel on that date, the ship being successfully beached with the loss of three lives. Lieutenant A.J. Mackenize, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Idaho won the Distinguished Service Cross on the same occasion. Reilly deserted the RNR on May 1, 1918 and "voluntarily surrendered" at Milford Haven on May 17th, duly awarded sixty days imprisonment with hard labour in Carmarthen Gaol (Jail). He was discharged from service on March 5, 1919.