Cardboard box
Category
Ephemera
Date
1920 - 1921
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
61 mm (Height) x 9 mm (Depth); 88 mm (Length)
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055.3.3
Summary
Small cardboard box with lid containing the 1914-1915 Star medal posthumously awarded to Henry Colt Arthur Hoare (1888-1917). Typed label reads '2nd Lieut H. C. A. Hoare, Dorset. Yeo.'
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: 2nd Lieut H. C. A. Hoare, Dorset. Yeo