Letter
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
20 Jun 1921
Materials
ink on paper
Measurements
220 x 172 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733055.7
Summary
Letter from the War Office (A.G.10), 27 Pilgrim Street, London, E.C.4., dated 20th June 1921. Addressed to Lady Hoare, accompanying the British War and Victory medals 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.