Medal ribbon
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1920 - 1921
Materials
silk
Measurements
32 mm (Width); 233 mm (Length)
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055.2.2
Summary
Blue, black, white and orange striped ribbon for the British War Medal posthumously awarded to Henry Colt Arthur Hoare (1888-1917).
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.