Agood DSM group for 1940 for the Grimsby Trawler ‘Rinovia’ converted to a minesweeper for the shooting down of an enemy aircraft when attacked in the Western Channel. July 1940

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Distinguished Service Medal, (GVI) (Smn. HMS Rinovia), officially impressed naming, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, clasp France & Germany, Africa Star,  War Medal,

Together with recipient’s Patrol Service Badge

D.S.M. L.G. 4/10/1940

‘For good services when attacked by enemy aircraft.’

Frederick Ronald Burgess, served aboard ‘Rinovia’ a 429 ton Grimsby trawlet. Requisitioned by the Navy in 1939 and employed sweeping the Western Channel. On 19  July, 1940 she was the target of an air attack shooting down one of the attackers

Burgess received the sole award of the DSM  for this action.

On 2 November, 1940 Rinovia was sunk by a mine off Falmouth Bay, some 3 miles off Anthony Light with the loss of 14 crew killed.

A few light scratch marks

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