Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Able Seaman H. V. Gibson, Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was interned in Holland throughout the Great War

1914 Star (B4/798 A.B. R.N.V.R., Hawke Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (B.4.798 A.B., R.N.V.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (4/798 A.B. R.N.V.R. Bristol Div.) the British War and Victory Medals with officially re-impressed naming, very fine or better (4) £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Fine Collection of Medals to 'Old Contemptibles' formed by Major Bob Keay.

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Harold Victor Gibson was born in 1890 in Bristol and joined the R.N.V.R. in June 1909. He served with the Hawke Battalion, R.N.D. from 8 October 1914 and spent the duration of the war interned in Holland before finally being repatriated on 11 November 1918.

Sold with copy service record.