Medal collection
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1914 - 1921
Materials
Metal
Measurements
420 x 280 mm
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Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
NT 421950.1
Summary
A collection of First World War medals awarded to Captain The Honourable Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth (1887-1917). The three medals are mounted in a display case with a War Office letter dated 3rd February 1921 addressed to his widow, forwarding to her ‘the accompanying 1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medals which would have been conferred upon Captain The Honourable L.U. Kay-Shuttleworth had he lived, in memory of his services with the British Forces during the Great War’.