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Four: Lieutenant (E.) R. C. H. D'Oyly, Royal Navy, who was among those killed when the...
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1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in original O.H.M.S. card forwarding box with named Admiralty enclosure slip (Lieutenant (E) Reginald Clare Hastings D’Oyly, R.N.) addressed to ‘Mrs S. A. A. D’Oyly, Claremount, Broadstone, Dorset’, extremely fine (4) £300-£400
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Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000.
Reginald Clare Hastings D'Oyly was born in Christchurch, Hampshire on 2 October 1918, the son of Vice-Admiral Warren Hastings D'Oyly and a descendant of the 11th Baronet Hastings of Shottisham, Norfolk. He joined the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham as a Midshipman (E.) in September 1936 and was promoted to Lieutenant (E.) on passing out of the college in September 1940.
Having then joined the cruiser H.M.S. Bonaventure in the following month, he quickly saw action in an Egypt bound convoy in December 1940, when she faced off an attack by the Admiral Scheer and sank the enemy blockade runner Baden. Allocated to the Malta run in the new year, Bonaventure also assisted at the destruction of the Italian gunboat Circe, prior to undertaking patrols in the Aegean.
On 31 March 1941, however, she was hit by two torpedoes from the Italian submarine Ambra and capsized and sank within minutes, taking with her 23 officers, including D’Oyly, and 116 ratings. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
For the medals awarded to his father, see Lot 127.
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in original O.H.M.S. card forwarding box with named Admiralty enclosure slip (Lieutenant (E) Reginald Clare Hastings D’Oyly, R.N.) addressed to ‘Mrs S. A. A. D’Oyly, Claremount, Broadstone, Dorset’, extremely fine (4) £300-£400
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Importation Duty
This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK
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Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000.
Reginald Clare Hastings D'Oyly was born in Christchurch, Hampshire on 2 October 1918, the son of Vice-Admiral Warren Hastings D'Oyly and a descendant of the 11th Baronet Hastings of Shottisham, Norfolk. He joined the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham as a Midshipman (E.) in September 1936 and was promoted to Lieutenant (E.) on passing out of the college in September 1940.
Having then joined the cruiser H.M.S. Bonaventure in the following month, he quickly saw action in an Egypt bound convoy in December 1940, when she faced off an attack by the Admiral Scheer and sank the enemy blockade runner Baden. Allocated to the Malta run in the new year, Bonaventure also assisted at the destruction of the Italian gunboat Circe, prior to undertaking patrols in the Aegean.
On 31 March 1941, however, she was hit by two torpedoes from the Italian submarine Ambra and capsized and sank within minutes, taking with her 23 officers, including D’Oyly, and 116 ratings. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
For the medals awarded to his father, see Lot 127.
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