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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 136

Pair: Midshipman J. H. Woodhouse, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (Mid. J. H. Woodhouse. R.N.), good very fine (2)

John Herbert Woodhouse - or Jack to his friends and comrades - was born in 1900. Aged twelve, he was sent to the Royal Naval College for two years, then to Dartmouth College in 1914. Appointed Midshipman aboard St Vincent, he served in that rank during the Great War and saw two of his elder brothers perish during the conflict. His father petitioned the Admiralty that he be released from service, this being confirmed in a letter dated 18 December 1918.

Woodhouse went out to India as an engineer on Tea Plantations in Assam; sold together with copied research including a series of letters, including his near-death experience whilst on a Tiger hunt in 1924.


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Estimate
£240 to £280

Starting price
£190