Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Chief Petty Officer Henry Hoath, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (A.B. H.M.S. Boadicea); 1914-15 Star Trio (138203 C.P.O. R.N.); Defence Medal; The Royal Victorian Medal, Silver, V.R. (P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Excellent 1901) crown and ring suspension repaired and re-fixed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (P.O. 1Cl. H.M.S. Grafton) the earlier medals with contact marks and naming on Victory Medal very faintly impressed, good fine, otherwise good very fine (7) £300-350

The Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) awarded in February 1901 for services at the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. A total of 171 silver Royal Victorian Medals awarded with the Queen Victoria obverse.

Henry Hoath was born at Edenbridge, Kent, on 12 August 1870, and entered the Royal Navy in August 1886 as a Boy 2nd Class. During the Great War he was part of a Naval Brigade at Port Said from 23-31 December 1916, and again from 9 February to 15 July 1917.

The naming on the Victory Medal is officially, but very faintly, impressed