Cardboard box
Category
Ephemera
Date
1920 - 1921
Materials
cardboard
Measurements
62 mm (Height) x 9 mm (Depth); 92 mm (Length)
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055.2.3
Summary
Small cardboard box with lid containing the British War Medal posthumously awarded to Henry Colt Arthur Hoare (1888-1917). Typed label reads 'CAPT.H.C.A.HOARE.'
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
Top of lid: CAPT.H.C.A.HOARE.