Medal
Category
Coins and medals
Date
20 Jun 1921
Materials
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055
Summary
An envelope containing a letter from the War Office, a typed memorandum and two card boxes containing medals conferred posthumously Capt. H. C. A. Hoare. Letter dated 20 June 1921.
Provenance
Awarded posthumously by the War Office to Henry Colt Arthur Hoare, Captain in the Dorset Yeomanry, who was killed in action in the First World War, December 1917. Addressed to Alda, Lady Hoare, at Stourhead. Given to the National Trust along with Stourhead House, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.