Medal
Category
Coins and medals
Date
1920 - 1921
Materials
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055.3
Summary
One of three First World War medals posthumously awarded to Henry Colt Arthur Hoare (1888-1917). 1914-1915 Star Medal and ribbon, in a small cardboard box inscribed '2nd Lieut H. C. A. Hoare, Dorset. Yeo.', with related letter and memorandum from the War Office.
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.