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A Second War 'Minesweeping' D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Skipper A. A. Hindes, Royal Nav...

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A Second War ‘Minesweeping’ D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Skipper A. A. Hindes, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1941’, hallmarks for London 1940; 1914-15 Star (DA. 899 A. Hindes, D.H. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (899DA A. Hindes. D.H. R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with Mine Clearance Service white metal arm badge, this with two lugs but lacking back plate, and R.N.P.S. lapel badge, good very fine (9) £800-£1,000 --- D.S.C. London Gazette 1 July 1941, Birthday Honours List: ‘Temporary Skipper Alfred Augustus Hindes, 311 T.S., R.N.R.’ Alfred Augustus Hindes was born at Lowestoft on 6 March 1894, and prior to the outbreak of the war was working on fishing trawlers out of Lowestoft as a Deck Hand. Having joined the Royal Naval Reserve he was immediately called up on 10 August 1914 for minesweeping services as a Deck Hand. He served aboard various trawlers and drifters and by the end of the war was based at Ganges, a Minesweeper Trawler base, from where he was demobilised on 26 January 1919. In February 1919 he joined the newly formed Mine Clearance Service for which he subsequently was awarded the arm badge. The outbreak of the Second World War saw him called up and appointed Temporary Skipper on 9 January 1940, and promoted to Skipper by August 1940 when he joined H.M. Trawler Sunlight, operating out of Queensborough Pier, near Sheerness, known as H.M.S. Wildfire II which in July 1941 became H.M.S. Tudno. This came under Nore Command which covered the North Sea from Flamborough Head to North Foreland and across to the enemy held coastline. Sunlight twice had her bows blown up by acoustic mines in the early days before a method was devised to explode the mine further ahead of the ship. He left Sunlight shortly after February 1943 after the vessel had been attacked by E boats and aircraft, limping into Aberdeen where she was paid off. He was then Skipper of the trawler Charles Dorian, based at H.M.S. Miranda, Great Yarmouth, sweeping the channels and escorting convoys up the East Coast as part of the 13th Minesweeping Group. She was paid off in Glasgow in June 1945, when Hindes was also demobilized. He died on 30 July 1966, at Kelling, near Holt, Norfolk, and is buried in Lowestoft Cemetery. Sold with copied research.
A Second War ‘Minesweeping’ D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Skipper A. A. Hindes, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1941’, hallmarks for London 1940; 1914-15 Star (DA. 899 A. Hindes, D.H. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (899DA A. Hindes. D.H. R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with Mine Clearance Service white metal arm badge, this with two lugs but lacking back plate, and R.N.P.S. lapel badge, good very fine (9) £800-£1,000 --- D.S.C. London Gazette 1 July 1941, Birthday Honours List: ‘Temporary Skipper Alfred Augustus Hindes, 311 T.S., R.N.R.’ Alfred Augustus Hindes was born at Lowestoft on 6 March 1894, and prior to the outbreak of the war was working on fishing trawlers out of Lowestoft as a Deck Hand. Having joined the Royal Naval Reserve he was immediately called up on 10 August 1914 for minesweeping services as a Deck Hand. He served aboard various trawlers and drifters and by the end of the war was based at Ganges, a Minesweeper Trawler base, from where he was demobilised on 26 January 1919. In February 1919 he joined the newly formed Mine Clearance Service for which he subsequently was awarded the arm badge. The outbreak of the Second World War saw him called up and appointed Temporary Skipper on 9 January 1940, and promoted to Skipper by August 1940 when he joined H.M. Trawler Sunlight, operating out of Queensborough Pier, near Sheerness, known as H.M.S. Wildfire II which in July 1941 became H.M.S. Tudno. This came under Nore Command which covered the North Sea from Flamborough Head to North Foreland and across to the enemy held coastline. Sunlight twice had her bows blown up by acoustic mines in the early days before a method was devised to explode the mine further ahead of the ship. He left Sunlight shortly after February 1943 after the vessel had been attacked by E boats and aircraft, limping into Aberdeen where she was paid off. He was then Skipper of the trawler Charles Dorian, based at H.M.S. Miranda, Great Yarmouth, sweeping the channels and escorting convoys up the East Coast as part of the 13th Minesweeping Group. She was paid off in Glasgow in June 1945, when Hindes was also demobilized. He died on 30 July 1966, at Kelling, near Holt, Norfolk, and is buried in Lowestoft Cemetery. Sold with copied research.

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