Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver (H. J. O’Hara, A.B., H.M.S. X’lent), crudely engraved naming, fine £70-90

R.V.M. London Gazette 18 February 1936

Henry O’Hara was born in 1898 at Winchester, Hampshire. He was an errand boy before enlisting in the Royal Navy in March 1914 as a Boy 2nd Class. Throughout the Great War he served aboard the dreadnaught battleship H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, firstly in the Mediterranean and later as part of the Grand Fleet stationed at Scapa Flow. He was promoted Boy 1st Class in October 1914, Ordinary Seaman in November 1916 and Able Seaman in August 1919. He was awarded his first Good Conduct stripe in 1919 and the second in 1924. He was awarded the R.V.M. for services at the funeral of King George V. Sold with copied service paper and research.