Description
A Battle of the Atlantic, Normandy Campaign, Far East Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service Group of 5 awarded to Leading Seaman, later Petty Officer, Frederick Davie, Clyde Division R.N.V.R. comprising, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star with France and Germany clasp, Pacific Star, 1939-45 War Medal, all unnamed as issued, Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVR, with additional Long Service Bar, (C.D. 155 F. Davie. L.S. R.N.V.R.), lightly toned very fine.
RNVR LS&GC awarded 7th of September 1936
Bar to RNVR LS&GC awarded 7th of May 1944
Frederick Davie joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on the 7th of May 1924joing the Clyde Division Glasgow Sub-Division RNVR, Frederick stated that he was born on the 29th of January 1906 in Govan, Glasgow and that he was a Labourer.
Frederick served aboard some 14 ships during his career, at the outbreak of World War Two he was serving aboard the Destroyer H.M.S. Vivien, on 25 October 1939, she steamed to Rosyth to finish her work-ups, and in November 1939 entered service there as an escort for convoys in the North Sea.
On 10 April 1940, Vivien was part of the escort of Convoy ON 25, which had departed Rosyth the previous evening bound for Norway, when she detected a possible submarine and depth-charged it; she also assisted that day in driving off attacks by German Heinkel He 111 bombers and investigated the wreckage of an He 111 shot down by Royal Air Force fighters which crashed 1.5 nautical miles from her. On 10 June 1940 she was part of the escort for the first convoy along the east coast of Great Britain to come under attack by German motor torpedo boats (S-boats, known to the Allies as “E-boats”). On 11 November 1940, her 4-inch guns shot down one German aircraft and damaged another that attacked a convoy she was escorting.
Sold with original RNVR Certificate of Service in original envelope.
