Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R., with Second Award Bar (18 W. H. Pope, C.P.O., R.N.V.R.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £350-400

Ex Tamplin Collection, D.N.W. 25 September 2008.

Only 65 R.N.V.R. L.S. & G.C. medals awarded during the reign of Edward VII, of which 8 subsequently had bars.

William H. Pope was born on 16 June 1872. He enrolled as a Private in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in 1890 and served for seven years. In 1898 he enrolled into the Bristol Division of the R.N.V.R. For his service with the latter he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal on 1 March 1910, in the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He lost his medal and a duplicate was issued on 6 February 1915. The original medal was found and returned to the authorities in September 1919, whereupon the duplicate was returned by Pope and the original medal was forwarded to him on 18 October 1919. Pope was awarded a Bar to his medal on 8 April 1920. For services during the Great War he was also entitled to the 1914 Star and bar trio. Sold with full research.