Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 525

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£520

Three: H. N. Tate, on “Service with the Royal Navy”

1914-15 Star (H. N. Tate, Service with the Royal Navy); British War and Victory Medals (H. N. Tate, Service with the Royal Navy) extremely fine (3) £200-250

Hugh Norton Tate was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in 1870. He gained his Certificate of Competency as Extra Master, at Liverpool, on 16 February 1895. He was appointed a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.R. in 1895 and was advanced to a Lieutenant in 1898.

Sold with five original documents: Certificate of Competency as Extra Master, dated 16 February 1895; commission document, appointing Tate a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, dated 31 October 1895; a commission document appointing Tate a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, dated 13 June 1898; a certificate from the United Grand Lodge, dated 1896; a formal letter of thanks from the British Museum (Natural History) to H. N. Tate for a collection of 150 Diptera he presented them with, dated 5 December 1910.

The trio is one of about 80 issued by the Royal Navy to civilians and so named.