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Pair: Officer's Steward 3rd Class H. J. Horley, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals...
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Pair: Officer’s Steward 3rd Class H. J. Horley, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (L.9160 H. J. Horley. O.S.3 R.N.) mounted as worn; together with a contemporary EPNS identity bracelet, this engraved ‘Horace Horley H.M.S. Excellent, H.M.S. Ithuriel L.9160. C.E.’, edge bruise to BWM, nearly very fine Pair: A. Fleming, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Arthur Fleming) claw to MMWM a little loose, good very fine Pair: Private G. Metcalfe, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (89884 Pte. G. Metcalfe. M.G.C.) good very fine (6) £70-£90 --- Horace John Horley was born in Dorking on 20 October 1886 and joined the Royal Navy on 24 July 1916. Invalided 27 February 1919, he was awarded a King’s Certificate. The Registry of Shipping and Seaman lists three men with the name Arthur Fleming who received British War ands Mercantile Marine War Medals for Great War service, one of whom died on 22 March 1918 following the loss of the S.S. Trinidad. George Metcalfe served with the Machine Gun Corps during the Great War on the Western Front, and was later discharged from the 1st South African Military Hospital at Abbeville on 4 February 1918, following treatment for myalgia. Medical records note his attachment to No. 49 Prisoner of War Company at the time, followed by the award of a Silver War Badge in September 1918.
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Pair: Officer’s Steward 3rd Class H. J. Horley, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (L.9160 H. J. Horley. O.S.3 R.N.) mounted as worn; together with a contemporary EPNS identity bracelet, this engraved ‘Horace Horley H.M.S. Excellent, H.M.S. Ithuriel L.9160. C.E.’, edge bruise to BWM, nearly very fine Pair: A. Fleming, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Arthur Fleming) claw to MMWM a little loose, good very fine Pair: Private G. Metcalfe, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (89884 Pte. G. Metcalfe. M.G.C.) good very fine (6) £70-£90 --- Horace John Horley was born in Dorking on 20 October 1886 and joined the Royal Navy on 24 July 1916. Invalided 27 February 1919, he was awarded a King’s Certificate. The Registry of Shipping and Seaman lists three men with the name Arthur Fleming who received British War ands Mercantile Marine War Medals for Great War service, one of whom died on 22 March 1918 following the loss of the S.S. Trinidad. George Metcalfe served with the Machine Gun Corps during the Great War on the Western Front, and was later discharged from the 1st South African Military Hospital at Abbeville on 4 February 1918, following treatment for myalgia. Medical records note his attachment to No. 49 Prisoner of War Company at the time, followed by the award of a Silver War Badge in September 1918.
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