British War Medal
The Royal Mint
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1920 - 1921
Materials
silver
Measurements
50 x 31 x 3 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055.2.1
Summary
British War Medal posthumously awarded to Henry Colt Arthur Hoare (1888-1917). Silver medal showing a portrait in profile of King George V; on the reverse a nude Saint George on horseback tramples the Prussian eagle shield and a skull and cross-bones. 'CAPT.H.C.A.HOARE.' is impressed on the lower edge of the medal.
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.
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom edge: CAPT.H.C.A.HOARE.
Makers and roles
The Royal Mint, manufacturer